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The Sparksman and Stephens 34’. The sailboat I chose to sail across the Atlantic Ocean with no experience and no navigation gear. Just my eyes and stars, but why the s&s34? One simple reason. It’s the ship that has never capsized. Despite holding so many circumnavigation records. But this was true 20 years ago, is it still true today?
Offshore cruising in a sudden pop‑up thunderstorm is anything but predictable—one moment the sea rolls steady, the next a wall of wind barrels down, whipping the rigging and heeling the boat hard over as spray leaps across the deck. Rain lashes sideways, stinging skin and soaking everything in seconds, until I can’t tell what’s seawater and what’s sky. The storm seems to come from nowhere, fierce and messy, leaving me braced against the wheel, drenched and blinking through the chaos, riding it out until the burst of fury suddenly eases as quickly as it arrived.