June 25, 2020
- Log
Tres Hombres

When the Sun Never Sleep (by Collin Bertron/Deckhand)

It's midnight, we wake up. It's morning light outside! We can see clearly.

The deck, the water surrounding us, the faces of my shipmates, the horizon melting in thousands of colors of blue. The moon goes to sleep, the other watches too.
We're alone on deck with a very light breeze.

We're like an evolution in a painting. Time is suspended for another night, it's not dark, not bright, just in between, eternal dusk, ethereal feeling of eternity.
Was midsummer celebration a couple of days ago, Saint Johns. But as we keep going North, it looks like a race with the time, just as slow. It seems we are still gaining a few minutes on him.
The wind, him, is not that regular and foreseeable. In one day, he blew us through Dover, flew us over Belgium and the Netherlands even before we had time to see it on the chart, but now is blowing somewhere else, letting us drifting in the North Sea, trimming our sails to try to find him again, but no jealousy, we can share, other ships might need him as well and he will turn back, he always turn back.

The North Sea, I've never been so far North in my life, in front of us just lay unknown waters.
We are entering Viking's territories, heading for Skagerrak, the northern point of Denmark, where the Baltic and the North Sea meet. I'm curious to discover new landscapes and different cultures.
Let's see what the little island of Bornholm has to bring us. We'll bring them some wine. Isn't that a nice present and a good way to make new friends? We're going to deliver some delicious organic and natural wines over there.
That's our mission, trading the most delicious products from one place to another, to one culture to another. Always under sail.

Great blue sky for all

Colin

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