Today we are submitting a journal entry out of date order to acknowledge our one year anniversary of the Blind Circumnavigation. Some moments it seems that it has been many years since we put the Golden Gate Bridge astern and said goodbye to friends and family, and at other times it seems like it was not all that long ago. One thing is for sure, we have lived life fully over this past year with countless memories from this adventure. We have visited twenty-two ports in four countries. We are currently at sea and less than 150 miles from the Kingdom of Tonga, our fifth Country.
We have faced and overcome challenges. We have met wonderful people along the way and made lifelong friends. And we have seen so much of this beautiful planet. What an incredible year it has been!
We are just a little over 1,000 miles from reaching one of our first big milestones, the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean by legally blind people without sighted assistance, and we are getting very excited. We should reach New Zealand and complete our Pacific crossing in late November.
Today we are sailing under partly cloudy skies with a ten knot wind blowing from the northeast. We are sailing under a full main and 80% jib, and making about five knots. To celebrate our anniversary our boom took the opportunity to over rotate and invert, causing us two hours of unexpected repairs and problem solving, No problem, we got it fixed and we are now continuing on. The only consistent thing about living on a sailboat is that nothing is predictable.
Between now and New Zealand we should catch up on our journal, we have been very busy with many exciting experiences, so stay tuned. Today is also a big day for an entirely different reason and I better cut this journal entry short, because very soon we will cross the International Date Line and loose the rest of today and the next 24 hours. Until tomorrow…
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