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Fare le notturne sarà anche faticoso, ma ti regala ogni santa volta uno spettacolo al quale assisti in prima fila. Un tripudio di colori e linee, la temperatura giusta. Un caffè solubile spazza via una parte di occhiaie, mentre sogniamo una bella dormita di 8h. Ma il lavoro non aspetta. 💻 Mattinata di lavorazioni che diventa pomeriggio di call. Ci sono dei progetti in procinto di partire, quindi queste settimane sono di FUOCO 🔥 Fortunatamente abbiamo un ufficio spazioso con un’ottima vista, quindi lo stretching per ossigenare i muscoli è alla nostra portata e il mare è piatto. Abbocca perfino una lampuga, ma proprio sotto barca, a un passo dall’essere portata entrohordo, si salama, forse per un mio errore, forse per il filo sottile, chi lo sa. Nel dubbio, stasera per cena würstel 😂 Atterriamo a Crotone quando ormai è buio e siamo costretti a evitare le piattaforme solo con o le segnalazioni luminose e cartografiche, perché l’inquinamento della città non ci fa distinguere una luce di terra da una in mare. Oggi ho riletto dei cap del libro e non vedo veramente l’ora che possiate leggerlo. Questa cosa mi terrorizza e mi rassicura nello stesso momento. Vi piacerebbe partecipare alla creazione del titolo? Siamo in cerca di ispirazione :) A domani 🤍 Camilla
We had an interesting final sail on Peter's Firebird in the most wind I sailed in when in Barbados - we sailed with 2 reefs. Peter's friend Eric has a foiling waveboard and he wanted to foil behind the Firebird. In the end he managed it, but there was lots of falling in at the beginning. It was hard work for Peter and I as we had to start at near zero speed, so Eric could grab the tow rope, then slowly accelerate to about 7 knots so he could get ready for lift off. Then accelerate to 10 knots very quickly, so he could lift out. And then control the speed at 10-12 rather than surge up to 15-18. But of course the wind would drop, or he'd fall in or.... but, as I say, after 2 hours he did manage to fly for maybe 30 secs. Although, if we were quick enough, we could stop and heave to after he fell in, sometimes we sailed on too far and then we had to pull in the tow rope (we discovered it was too easy to get it entangled on rudders and daggerboards), tack round and sail back. As always it was scary how quickly a head disappears from view. But interestingly we could easily see him when he was in the sun, it was when he was north of us that he became invisible (one of his sons kept a very close eye on Dad, religiously pointing to his position). Flat water helped, and lots of passing day charter cats got a bit confused by seeing a swimmer apparently a mile out to sea but happily waving!