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AraVilla Crossing From Norfolk to St Maarten

'Monday November 14th, 2022 10:00'
This adventure is over.
I Have Arrived. At dinner tonight, (stuffed peppers), sitting around the table laughing, listening to getting stale music, sharing our daily bottle of wine, I recognized the truth. It is the journey, not the destination. Despite the lack of wind and constantly on the nose when it does blow, we 3 couldn't be happier. I did not come to go to St. Martin, I came to sail. Reaching St. Martin is the end of that. We are sailing, albeit slowly, and experiencing what it is to do so. The goal of this trip is to learn and grow. Over the past 6 days I have learned so much. Yermo and I can now handle all the sails, furling, reefing and unreefing, trimming, and even launching, flying, and dousing a Spinnaker. There is still much to learn about the boat's systems but it's those things specific to this boat. We've had things break and fixed them or adapted to those repairs that must wait until port, and improvised solutions to the challenges. We're making navigation plans and adapting on the fly to changing conditions. We are becoming more experienced sailors, the reason we came in the first place. We have already reached the place we wanted to be.

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