As Long As the Wind Blows: The Voyages of Spalax and Spalax 2 from Corfu to New Caledonia

“Nothing to it,“ said Captain Jack, when I asked him anxiously about the dangers of crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat. “Just get yourself some sailing experience, a seaworthy sailboat and the trade winds’ll take care of the rest. They’ll catapult you across the Pond and before you know it, you’ll be chillaxing under a coconut tree on a tropical island, sipping your well-deserved rum punch,“ he assured me. Exotic islands, tropical paradise, idyllic lagoons, teeming coral reefs, pristine beaches, frangipani flowers, that’s the stuff dreams are made of, I thought wishfully. I wonder if my boat will ever ply the transparent waters of the Bora Bora lagoon.