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I'm on my 11th day out here in the Indian Ocean. I finally make it to 10° South and clear of the convection clouds. I fall off the wind and start breathing again. Day drifts into night and it's all a real dream. I can see the stars for the first time in three days....

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The day shows no sign of rain. The swell reminds me of a precipitous country hillside and occasionally a wave crashes onboard. There are clouds but the sky is blue and bright between them. I sleep and sleep some more. Now it's sunset and there is no sunset, only a vast light grey cloud across...

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Sometimes the only way to get around something is to go through it. I have been watching this strange-looking area on the GRIB (weather) files for a while. I kept thinking I should go more south, but I was doubting myself. Then all morning yesterday Juniper was trying to sail south and I was having...

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I am near the Afanisy Nikitin Seamount. The exact position of my sailing ship on this spinning planet that orbits a blazing, gaseous star named Sun — known for its solar flares and magnetic mischief — which drifts in a galaxy that is just one among billions in a universe full of mystery and glow,...

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The elements around me are constant — the sky, the sun, the sea — yet they are forever evolving: bigger, smaller, wilder, dreamier, higher, heavier, redder, bluer, deeper. Each day feels like I’m sailing into a new dimension. This dimension I’m in now is moody — like a wild animal that’s just been released back...

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The night started out dazzling. Winds in the teens, a sky laced with celestial bodies. I was lying beneath it all, sleeping like a dandelion drifter, until a squall hit me hard. I couldn’t see boo turkey. No moon, no stars—just darkness. Black. So much nothing. So much confusion. Wind. Rain. Falling. Cold. Can’t see....

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The rain takes the wind from me for most of the day yesterday, but I find it again around sunset. That’s when life gets all wonderland. Rainbows in the sky, dolphins jumping at my bow, wind in the teens, sun setting. An intoxicating voodoo spell made of all my favorite sea elements. Looming off starboard,...

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I’ve spent all day on a beam reach with the wind between 13–16 knots and Juniper averaging 5. No rain, no other boats, just blue and blue and blue — and thoughts of you. The swell is a little over 6 feet high, and the sea is a touch lumpy in places. I don’t really...

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The afternoon sky went muddy with rain clouds. There were fishermen up ahead and on the patch of blue beyond them all I could see for miles and miles were these white balls floating on the surface of the water in a uniform fashion. I figured it must be some type of net. No kind...

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This forecast wasn’t the Tooth Fairy — it didn’t vanish in the night. And so, darling, I’ve finally departed for Madagascar. Farewell, you perfect waves and palm-tree-covered beaches with sand as white as snow. For the past month, it’s been: Hurry! Wind’s coming! Get ready! Then the forecast would fall flat, and I’d sit and...

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