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around me but...

on the other hand I missed

my father, I missed home.

I couldn't eat anything for two

days, just couldn't get it down.

I felt really very strange.

Dolphins.

Really so beautiful.

So beautiful, wow.

I hope they swim

along for a while.

A bit of company.

It's still about...

1780 miles or so to St. Maarten, I think.

And I've...

sailed something like 400

or 500 or so.

I'm hungry, but it's

nowhere near dinner time.

And to actually cook

a nice meal won't work.

I'm being tossed around...

as my food would be.

It's kind of difficult.

If you had way more arms,

then you could at least

hold onto the food.

I was pretty fed up

with it yesterday.

I could have just kicked

the waves to the moon.

If only that were possible.

I'm looking forward to being

on land again soon.

It's just like...

It would be nice to run

and to walk a bit.

So, here I am again,

I just had to do an update.

Now the wind is seriously

going away.

Damn.

And then there's

this f***ing swell...

Things are just really

hard for me right now.

Nobody said life was easy.

But that's a pretty

annoying fact.

I don't give up.

After everything I've done

for it,

all the years of dreaming

of this journey.

Okay, there's a f***ing lot

of rain coming at me now.

Holy sh*t, sh*t.

Woo-hoo.

A big wave just came over the

deck and that was so beautiful.

And now the wind

has picked up even more.

Really super awesome!

It's really cool to see

how the boat fights

its way through the waves.

Awesome, right?

I can really enjoy that.

Okay, so that was rain...

and wind.

And I think there's

a lot more rain coming,

but it's pretty nice.

Especially now that I have

everything under control.

Really beautiful, eh?

Nobody said sailing was fun.

Except for me.

It's just amazing.

I always dreamed of it,

live this way of life.

I was born on a boat in New

Zealand when my parents were

sailing around the world.

It was a magical time.

It was beautiful, but my mom

totally didn't like sailing.

She actually hated it.

She got seasick every time.

When I was four, we sold

the boat and bought a house

in Holland.

And then my dad started

building a boat right away

and my mom just...

I don't know...

she found someone else

and they broke up.

So then they asked me

where I wanted to live.

I said my dad,

because I really wanted to sail.

So I grew up in a shipyard

with my dad building boats.

When I was about six,

my dad got me an Optimist,

a little dinghy boat

where I always sailed in,

mostly after school.

When I was about eight, a really

nice friend of my dad had a boat

that he didn't want

to sail in anymore,

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