We Crossed the Atlantic on a Sailboat

Small boat (32 foot) crossing the Atlantic Ocean with a limited crew. The Comfortina 32 sailboat was never made for crossing an ocean, but we did not understand that at that time. We were young and naive and we just set off in the boat we had. Crossing the Atlantic westbound with a small sailboat shorthanded was easy, scary, exciting, demanding, frustrating and fun. And what did we learn? Go small, go simple and go now. You will never miss one more day at work! On our crossing we had more days with calm that we had with gale force. We wished for more wind on half our passage, but in retrospect it was better to have less wind than too much wind.