Sydney Canada ; location The safe haven of the Delta Hotel Condition , chilly outside buut warm in the Bar
We ve had our crew brief for tommorrow and I m mentaly ready for the cold, the hard work it will take to get us to Ireland.I ve felt quite emmotional lately , I looked at my globe and it just registered how far we have been in the last nine months .... it puts a lump in my throat that we have come so far.Marcus and his merry men have chatted, worked hard and learnt so much ,not just about sailing but dealing with fears , the cold and all the other stuff you can imagine.We have a great crew, a great skipper and I have great memeoires of it all.
At the begining of this journey which started with a call from Hong Kong to David Cushworth with me excitied about joining and being worried about not getting a place on board The 'fear' set in .. The Fear of ' Will I be strong enough' ....The Fear of ' How is the skipper'..... The Fear of ' I m out of my saftey net , how will I cope' .......The Fear of not wanting to fail others ' ... The Fear of will I be strong enough ' .. the Fear of the ocean'( remember I ve only sailed for 12 days prior to this )
But the real fear that I had and this is by far the greatest.. the fear of Not finishing the journey ..of not making it through.. when I m honest when I spoke to David Cusworth the real fear was starting something and not finishing , the weather may be bad , the ocean may be angry , but as a team .. no not a team .. a family on board the Lady Qing we have grown and I know we have all made our fears a little smaller and we will come away from this a stronger family .. something no one will ever be able to take away from us.Seeing Ant have large waves over him whilst helming out of Durban takes guts, Christians helping hand and alway eager to do the right thing, Nicole who has just grown stronger on every leg and takes on the waves of these ocean showing no fear, Chris on the other watch who is always there ,and the Boy wonder Ocsar who shows no fear and is alway smiling ... I m glad to be taking this last part of the journey with them .. we started together and will return together closer than we realise . Slam and Glam will be the watch names as we started this adventure .. fear will be our friend reminding us to be aware and safe .... sleep is just 14days away .. and we have the rest of our lives to catch up on that..
Yes this will be an emmotion journey home.
We ve had our crew brief for tommorrow and I m mentaly ready for the cold, the hard work it will take to get us to Ireland.I ve felt quite emmotional lately , I looked at my globe and it just registered how far we have been in the last nine months .... it puts a lump in my throat that we have come so far.Marcus and his merry men have chatted, worked hard and learnt so much ,not just about sailing but dealing with fears , the cold and all the other stuff you can imagine.We have a great crew, a great skipper and I have great memeoires of it all.
At the begining of this journey which started with a call from Hong Kong to David Cushworth with me excitied about joining and being worried about not getting a place on board The 'fear' set in .. The Fear of ' Will I be strong enough' ....The Fear of ' How is the skipper'..... The Fear of ' I m out of my saftey net , how will I cope' .......The Fear of not wanting to fail others ' ... The Fear of will I be strong enough ' .. the Fear of the ocean'( remember I ve only sailed for 12 days prior to this )
But the real fear that I had and this is by far the greatest.. the fear of Not finishing the journey ..of not making it through.. when I m honest when I spoke to David Cusworth the real fear was starting something and not finishing , the weather may be bad , the ocean may be angry , but as a team .. no not a team .. a family on board the Lady Qing we have grown and I know we have all made our fears a little smaller and we will come away from this a stronger family .. something no one will ever be able to take away from us.Seeing Ant have large waves over him whilst helming out of Durban takes guts, Christians helping hand and alway eager to do the right thing, Nicole who has just grown stronger on every leg and takes on the waves of these ocean showing no fear, Chris on the other watch who is always there ,and the Boy wonder Ocsar who shows no fear and is alway smiling ... I m glad to be taking this last part of the journey with them .. we started together and will return together closer than we realise . Slam and Glam will be the watch names as we started this adventure .. fear will be our friend reminding us to be aware and safe .... sleep is just 14days away .. and we have the rest of our lives to catch up on that..
Yes this will be an emmotion journey home.
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For gods sake man , pull yourself together.
Someone slap him.
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