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| Day after day - sea and sky - endless |
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| Lone Triple Star - encountered again at sea 50something days later... |
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| The many shades of sea-blue.... |
It is hard to believe, against all odds, but here we crossed path with her again: The Triple Star, the sailboat abandoned after a sad racing mishap since months, and still drifting in the ocean on her solitary journey.
The last time we saw her was 54 day ago, and 195 nautical miles further north.
She does not look any worse now than she did then. Actually, she is probably 'sail away' to Bermuda even in her present state. She may have collected a coat of barnacles on her hull, and some of her fittings look ragged, but here she is for the taking: a beautiful seaworthy yacht.
Prinsendam altered course after espying her in the vast expanse of sea, to check the identity and state of the drifting vessel - and to everyone's surprise at the co-incidence of identifying her as the same lost sailboat, we had previously encountered, we left her to her lonely drifting. Captain Gunderson notified Bermuda authorities of her updated position...and we carried on towards Fort Lauderdale in calm seas and almost tropical temperature.
