The Canaries in the wake!
This Saturday night, Use It Again! has passed the Canary Islands and is continuing its course at 14 knots along the African coasts in a light north-easterly flow. While his Iberian companion sleeps – after having taken advantage of capturing a little network to get news from the land, specifies the skipper of Use It Again – Romain sends us these few lines ...
«It's the Atlantic slide towards Africa with the impression of having changed seasons in front of our bows. Which is the case because we've been sailing since this morning in shorts and a T-shirt. It makes you dream in Brittany I know… get used to it! it's going to be the big yo-yo of the seasons for the weeks to come. And in 3 weeks, we won't be smart. I already realized that I needed an accessory to face the cold… So the road is blocked in the West and the routing took us across the Canaries from North to South to go to the Moroccan coast. Either, let's go in shorts then since Alex and I put away this morning the big raincoats that had accompanied us well since the start. This departure... this leap into the unknown, these 100, 110, 120 days ahead of us. An oceanic eternity, oceans to cross, warm and cold nights, walls of water, ocean exploration. Never have I spent so much time at sea and from afar, neither has Alex. How are we going to live it? Morale, physique, the boat? This is our leitmotif, we must hold on! So yes the first 2 days were complicated, digestively speaking... this fatigue due to seasickness which accumulated with stress, emotions, these were not 2 exhilarating days in the cold and the very disorderly sea of the Bay of Biscay . But I know that at sea you have to know how to wait. And there we glide on my superb Use It Again trimaran! towards Africa, surrounded by dolphins. Happiness and marine life exist of course. We must seek them out, take advantage of them and protect them.»
