A trip of 13 days, with pretty hard winds, with the Parasailor, and two times drifting in a calm, , with great meals, with a fossil free awe, and more.

With sharing each hour together, from when you get up till you go to bed, and even hear the snoring of the other one in the night.

And still Peter and Brent talk to each other. Doesn’t that say enough?

Fossil free awe

Sat Sep 12 2025 18:08:00 GMT+1300

Again we are in a calm. We try to avoid it but each model -PredictWind can deliver us seven- shows different areas so we just took the most probable course to avoid it, but no success.
Other boats start the diesel then and motor mny hours, but we are fossilfree and kept on sailing this afternoon with nearly no wind and we enjoyed it. for miles. During dinner the wind died out completely. We enjoy the silence.

Brent starts contemplating and says:.
“It is quiet. It peaceful. It is simple: the sky, the clouds, the sea and the boat.
What do we see:
The clouds, the colors in the sky, the glassy water., a lonely white tropical bird flying into the orange sunset”
Brent is in awe.

Parasailor up

Sun Sep 13 2025 17:11:00 GMT+1300

This morning the first wind. About 7 knots, for most sailors only enough to start the engine, but we hoisted the Parasailor.

Brent’s impressions:
The setting takes time, but then you have a sail that is ((first impression) impressive. The sail behaves calm and also the course ot the Ya is straight. With 7 knots we make 3.5 knots and with 5 knots of wind we could still do 3 knots. Later we had more wind, about 12-14 knots and then we flew with 5-6 knots through the water. But still nice and gentle.
So it is relatively fast. And, this downwind sail even points well upwind, till 70 degrees if you want.
Then, after a day of such nice sailing, it feels a pity to lower the Parasailor for the night. But we have to, the wind is too much from the Southsouthwest so we have to sail closer to the wind to get to Samoa.

With such nice sailing it is actually a pity that we arrive there, already in about three days.

Suspense about arrival

Mon Sep 14 2025 16:43:00 GMT+1300

In stead of a nice 12 to 14 knots of wind as predicted, we got a mere 5 or 7 last night Man, went slow. We calculated we would enter Samoa perhaps on Tuesday night, or even Wednesday.
This morning we got a next weather report and the results of the models differ a lot. One predicts that the calm we are in slowly makes place for a steady wind, but it will be increasing to 30 knots on Tuesday night,just when we will arrive. the other one says we first get a next calm, which costs us a day, and then it starts blowing 30 knots on Wednesday, also when we would arrive. So in in the calm we were in this morning, we were discussing what to do. Can we enter the harbor? Or shall we just enter the bay and go on anchor somewhere there? We were even discussing storm tactics. The suspense was there.

And then the wind picked up, no calm at all, and tonight we are still sailing in a nice 14 knots of wind. This way we will arrive before any storm will hit us.

Date line

Tue Sep 15-16 2025 18:09:00 GMT+1300

Most people travel the world like us: from the east to west. Good reason for that is that so now and then you get extra time. You travel against the rotation of the earth, and since we invented the clock related to the earth’s day and night scheme, it makes you get extra time. And we enjoy that, because we like life. In the meanwhile we have gathered already 12 hours of extra time. thank you for the extra life time, Mother Earth!
Now, what happens today? We sail along American Samoa and see the next country Samoa, and in between there is an imaginary line, called the Date Line. They simply say that when you pass that line, you live one day later.
This is not a joke. It is an invention of the governments. They did this on purpose. Many departments came together to decide this. This is clearly one big conspiracy, It is one mountain of rabbit holes!
So what about setting up a Foundation to Erase the Date Line. Who joins?

Arrival at Apia, Samoa

Mon Sep 17 2025 16:43:00 GMT+1300

At 10 o’clock this morning we anchored before Apia, Samoa. It took us thirteen days, and just now we ran out of vegetables.
There is a lot to tell, but let us be short:

It has been 13 days, sharing every hour together, from the meals till the snoring in the night, and Brent and Peter still talk to each other.
Need we say more?