November 25, 2003
1 minute reading time
Good Progress For VdH
Jen Luc van den Heede is currently making good progress towards Brazil on his record attempt non-stop, round the World East to West. Here is his latest excerpt.
Jen Luc van den Heede is currently making good progress towards Brazil on his record attempt non-stop, round the World East to West. Here is his latest excerpt.
“Every day, I have a lucky dip into a watertight crate to take out one of the many cuddly toys, which are accompanying me. Today, it was quite astonishing! It was a real model of a cuddly little cat sleeping in his basket. It was so realistic that I almost kept quiet so as not to wake him up! Besides that, he has a lot of other advantages: he doesn’t eat, he doesn’t smell, and he doesn’t claw everything in sight…
Adrien isn’t giving me too much work at the moment, apart from a few adjustments to the mainsail and the genoese (the wind has gone down and the genoese has replaced the solent). I’ve just started to read a long novel by Jack London that I love: Moon Valley.
There wasn’t a sign of life around me last night and I slept for four hours in a row for the first time. Usually, I wake up at least every two hours. In short, life is great at the moment!
Until tomorrow,