While the weather has turned seemingly overnight, we're still going to push to get Epilogue painted before the end of October. These days, every deadline I set for this project seems laughable, a pipe dream. Now we must fight the coming rain like commandos, waiting for every break in the weather to jump to action and carry out our mission with lightning speed and precision. The ammount of detail and tedium involved in prepping 110' of painted fiberglass is staggering. At some point you have to call it good and move on, knowing that people probably wont be looking at the boat from 12 inches away like I have for the past two weeks. One thing is for sure, she will look 100 times better than she has for many years.
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I recently finished reading Bernard Moitessier’s "The Long Way". It’s his journal and log during the race that was to become the very first running of the Vendee Globe. Singel-handed around the world non-stop.
They left from Plymouth GB, but Moitessier who held the lead after passing Cape Horn decided to continue in the Southern Ocean passing the Cape of Good Hope again! and not stopping until he reached Tahiti.
What a nut. Who throws a race when they are winning. Ah, a French man. And not just any French man but one who was raised in the east and saw something more dear to him on the horizon, or just beyond it, than the prize money. He had to save his spirit. For this he became a cultural hero in France.
I relate all this because their are two men (and several women) whom the French revere without peers. Eric Taberly, and Bernard.
Important to your cause — Moitessier painted his ketch Joshua with a roller, because he could not find a spraygun hadny at the time.
Work hard. But, have fun. The ocean will always be there. We cannot conquer it, we can only play in its waves.
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