Sea Sickness and Sugar | Bark Europa Day 2 - 3

Jun 28

June 27th, Day 2

I am seasick as f***. Engeurrand, Europa’s Bosun, recommends drinking some tea with sugar. I wonder if it is just some placebo that will make me think I feel better… this helps me. Amélie says to make sure I have a full stomach. My body will worry about eating and digesting rather than how awful I currently feel. This helps me immensely.

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Amélie, Markus and Lars answer 900 of my questions. This is a pin, this is a rail. What is this line? Where is that line? The Halyard is which sail connected to what line? The Top Gallant is this sail here?

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Captain Klaas gives a short lecture on weather patterns. He describes the weather and the high and low pressure systems that currently surrounded us outside of the Azores. They are currently providing the wind for us to sail and which direction we can expect to go.

June 28th, Day 3

Endless noise from waves lapping the sides of the ship. My sea sickness has not quite left my body yet. I lay in bed uncomfortable, too wam, too angled, too sideways, too this, and too that. Any which was I turn was the wrong way. I fall out of bed to join the crew on the poopdeck. We drop down to the maindeck and within minutes my clothes are soaked through. The rain is sideways and so is the ship. Heeled over in the deep grey fog, there is enough wind to furl the skysails (The sixth and highest sails on the mast used when there is only light wind).

We sail out from under the storm as it passes over our masts.

I take a moment for a break on the sloopdeck and am joined by Jasmin and we talk about life plans and partnerships, religion and spirituality, hobbies and skills, sailing and stills. I find out later in the day she practices a mainly vegetarian diet as well but more of a subsistence diet where she will eat meat on a holiday if the goose was from the farm next door. I tell her about Jack Formica and Amber Waves and his 1 pound of deer and 1 fish feeding 40 people. I point out a sea turtle and she gets very VERY excited. She tells me that a turtle was one of the animals she wanted to see and we talk about manifestation and how it is a big thing in the US.