27th June - An update from the 12 - 4 Watch - The Race has started

The race has started!

 

Yesterday we left Turku and sailed out to sea. I was starting to feel afraid about sea sickness, but what can I say now...I feel not very bad, but not very good at all!

 

Today in the morning 3.00-4.00 I was doing look-out. It was amazing!!!!! I had a possibility to see, how the sun was raising up and the new day was coming.

 

After a few hours of sleep, we all were woken up, because we had to cross the starting line. A lot of tall ships were around us and in the short breaks after doing some trainee jobs we had the possibility to enjoy the beautiful (again :) ) view around us.

 

In our watch time we had our instructor briefing about our position at sea, an interesting lesson about knot’s and...how to pull up and pull down the sails. They all are very huge and they look very, very nice from inside the ship and the from outside.

 

After some time, the captain was doing a briefing, where he said, that we have crossed line as he  expected and we all are very happy about this!

 

Now we have some free time, I think I use it for sweet afternoon sleep...because everybody from the crew is saying, that for the next few days will not have a lot of possibilities to do it.. :)

 

Rima, number 70