Good Morning,
Again, not really easy to think of a blog today. I can see the sadness on my pirates faces, a sombre time across the fleet.
We are all double clipped now in any wind force strength. We did a ceremony yesterday for Simon Speirs. Everybody have a different approach about death, but there isn't any training that would help to announce to your team such sad news.
We have to move on, let him free, and learn from it.
For me the reality of life is here, not on a desk like a slave of the system, sleeping, working, pay your tax and being a good boy. No, I want real things; an unforgiving sea, the sun, the birds, the waves, the salt in my veins.
As Eric Tabarly (one of the most well-known French sailor) always said, ‘there is no places on the sea for a liar, you know or you don't know, the sea, the ocean is a powerful true thing’. A Tsunami can take millions of souls in one go, so us little sailors on our boats we have to be very careful. Eric was one of the best sailor in the world and one day, one night, he was washed down. This can happen to any of us, and personally I don't think one day we will reach a 0% of probabilities to go overboard.
I will not stop sailing. We can think that Simon left us when doing what he loved, sailing, and I hope we all keep sailing for him.
All my thoughts are for his family and of course Andy and his team.