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for 12 days now.

Absolutely no wind.

Still none.

Of the 12 days I've been at sea,

I've been able to sail

about 24 hours.

It's quite frustrating

and my morale is sinking, but...

You know...

I'm still moving forward,

No, I'm not.

I'm going

exactly 0.1 knots.

So I am moving forward.

I still have 4500 miles

to go to Durban.

Damn.

Bobbing on the waves

for days will make you insane.

Guppy, Guppy.

Guppy.

I have wind!

The wind came last night

and now I'm sailing!

A very good day today.

Today is the...

no idea.

It is Saturday.

The wind died down

so I was rolling

in the genoa sail...

and that's when I stumbled over

that thing over there

Bird.

He's totally not scared.

Or she... no idea.

It won't eat,

it won't leave.

I don't know what it wants.

I don't know what it's doing.

I'm only speaking English to him

because he probably

doesn't understand Dutch.

He's really alive.

It's not a stuffed bird

or something.

Look, you see?

La la la

The light shining over there

is the moon slowly rising,

I think.

It's like it could crash

right down on me,

that's how big it is.

Jesus.

After 30 days,

time just didn't exist anymore.

It didn't really matter,

which I'd never felt before,

and it was the best feeling.

I didn't really care

if there was

a lot of fronts coming over,

or no wind.

I made peace with it.

I was just there,

I was with nature.

From the starting

of being the worst trip,

it actually was

the nicest trip ever,

just mentally.

Hello, at the moment we're

sailing towards Cape Town.

I can still see the coast

and I'm going to follow it.

And Guppy and I are rounding

the Cape.

There's been a lot of wind,

20-25 knots and we had

to sail against it.

It's a little

better now, so yeah,

waves are crashing over

and it's not very warm.

South African Weather Service has issued

a watch for severe thunderstorms.

Potentially large hail

and damaging winds.

A warning exists as well,

for the possibility

of heavy swell.

In the night, there were

really high waves.

The wind picked up more

and more and more,

and I was going way too fast.

The whole cockpit

was full of water,

and like things that

should be in the front

of the boat were

in the back of the boat.

What was for me amazing was

I didn't feel

anything but focused.

I was on the top of being alert,

and being scared

was totally gone.

I didn't feel that I was tired,

I didn't even feel

that I was hungry.

I was just doing it.

There were all these people

that just looked at me

like it was impossible

that I had come

in with this weather.

And as I finally started

to warm up again,

and to think straight,

I realized that,

"Wow, that's

actually pretty badass."

Before I left,

like, a lot of people

that said,

"Well, you will sink anyway."

And now they're like, "Oh no,

I always believed in you."

First I was like, "Yeah, right,"

and now I can

just laugh about it.

It was really cool.

I crossed

the three biggest oceans...

the Atlantic,

the Indian Ocean,

and the Pacific...

and only the South Atlantic

was waiting for me.

Now I look back on it,

I wanted the storms,

I wanted the calms,

I wanted to feel loneliness,

I wanted to feel

what it felt like

to be in the sea.

And now I know all these things.

I now knew

what sailing

around the world meant,

and knew that

I would keep doing it.

It was an end of the dream

that I had as a kid,

and it's the beginning

of my life

as a sailor.

Hey.

We're in the Atlantic Ocean,

the South Atlantic Ocean.

It's been...

a lot of days

since we've left Cape Town.

A few more days to the equator

and the Northern Hemisphere

and about 20 days

to St. Maarten.

I started officially in Europe

but I definitely don't want

to go back to Holland.

So, instead

of sailing to Europe,

I'll sail to the Caribbean.

As soon as I get there,

I will have officially

rounded the globe, alone.

The South Atlantic

was really nice for me.

I finally had time

to think about the past,

about what's going

to happen next,

about stupid things,

like wondering

what kind of animals

are all swimming

under your boat,

like, 3,000 miles deep.

Yeah, it felt pretty awesome.

I wasn't really looking

forward to arrive.

I just wanted

to continue sailing,

wanted to stay

at that quiet spot.

I could deal with everything,

with high waves,

with a lot of winds,

with loneliness,

but people and media,

I almost just sailed

straight to Trinidad

or Barbados.

But, I finished!

The best part was

definitely seeing my mom,

my sister, and my dad

all at the same time.

It was a perfect welcome.

I really love sailing alone,

but I also really love

sailing with someone too.

I was looking

for crew and I met Bruno.

No, no!

- What no?

- No, stop filming.

- I'm really not!

- The red light is on.

I'm not crazy.

There's just some moments

that are way more beautiful

to just share it with someone.

So we're sailing to New Zealand.

I feel like New Zealand

is gonna be a good place for me.

And if it turns out not to be,

I'll just travel farther.

Sometimes I feel

like an arrow

Fighting something,

somewhere long ago

Whether it moved or I'm bound,

I don't yet know

But if you see me coming,

oh, I'll probably pass you by

On my way to something

somewhere, sometime

Sometimes I

find myself reeling

Twisting and rolling

in a plastic sea

The signs and signals

biddin' for attention for me

So turn on your sleigh,

and I will turn on mine

And we'll hum and glow

Like something

somewhere, sometime

And if I wounded you,

I'm sorry

I had good intentions

And if I wounded you,

I'm sorry

'Cause it happens

all the time

Yeah

You remind me of a reason

had by someone

so many years ago

Send words through wires,

build highways

from coast to coast

But those words fell short

Your roads have worn

with time

On our way to something

somewhere, sometime

And if I've wounded you,

I'm sorry

I had good intentions, oh

And if I wounded you,

I'm sorry

It happens all the time

Sometimes I feel

like an arrow

Fighting something,

somewhere long ago

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