A Pacific Passage

Week one was so much fun

once we’d found the trades.

With plenty of food on board and a new moon,

oh what happy days.

Fresh wahoo and mahi mahi

perfecto for ceviche,

and Saecwen’s under way.

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Week two and the wind got up

speeding us on under reefed sails.

Fixing and mending kept busy the crew

until we were hit by squalls.

Dolphins to starboard, flying fish at night,

the sky lit up by the growing moon.

Starry night watches were such a treat,

here no time for gloom.

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Week three is an ode to George

our heroic hydrovane.

He steered us through in all conditions

through sun, squalls and rain.

Three thousand, five hundred miles later

we finally sighted land.

21 days at sea and like all good things,

our passage comes to an end.

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