This crossing was something truly special for me. These waters are part of home — places I know, places that shaped me — and even so, experiencing them this way felt completely new. To sail through them alongside friends, and such capable, thoughtful sailors, made everything even more meaningful.
There is something very beautiful in what we are doing together. We sail inside a kind of living simulation of the real world, built from weather data, maps, geography, wind models, routes, tides, and countless collected observations. But somewhere along the way, it stops being only data. It becomes stories, intuition, memory, shared knowledge, and human connection. We begin reading the weather together, understanding landscapes together, learning from older generations of sailors, exchanging experiences, and slowly building our own relationship with the sea and with the world around us.
This race helped me see that more clearly. Beyond competition, there is exploration. There is curiosity. There are people crossing paths through the same fascination with wind, navigation, history, weather, mapping, and the unknown. Different people, from different places, connected by this strange and beautiful passion for sailing. And honestly, I think there is something deeply human and deeply beautiful in that.
Thank you all for being part of it.
Fair winds to all brave sailors of our world.