Lat S 8 38 / long W 032 40

Day 9
Beginning to see the Big Dipper in the starry sky at night, it's a sign
that we will soon be in the northern hemisphere again. 600 NM left. I am
thinking of September 28, when we crossed the equator in the morning,
going south. That was the day after we dropped the inner forestay and we were
working with that. Many latitudes and longitudes have passed since,
and many a nautical mile, we have put behind us.
We also had quite a few comments on our
routing and timing. The first rigger we met in Tahiti - who did
not get the job to replace the stay - was a regular prophet of doom. He
said that with this rig, we would be lucky to get as far as to Chile. We
found another rigger who did what we asked, without discussion,
and as you know, we came to Chile and also around Tierra del Fuego.
In the WiFi room in Ushuaia I met a Dutch lady who was the
captain's wife on a large Dutch steel yacht who went on charter to
Antarctica. When I replied to her question that we would go north to
Europe along the coast of South America she looked at me and said in her
Flemish-English. - "Sailing Against the Wind & the strrrreeeaaamm"?
Now we are soon at the equator.
The moral:
There are many sailors who know best, choose yourself what advice is to be
counted for good.

Anna Karin