{"id":1651,"date":"2022-06-07T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jksail.it\/2023\/01\/18\/the-bombardiers\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:41:14","slug":"the-bombardiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jksail.it\/en\/2022\/06\/07\/the-bombardiers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOMBARDIERS."},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning to the reader.<\/span>

In order to fully experience this post put on your earbuds, download Vasco Rossi’s “I’m Still in a Coma” and turn up the volume to the max.<\/span>

This is how they shy in the middle of the Pacific.<\/span>

Vasco’s rock guitar gives me the right charge to face a pitch-black sea.<\/span>

The stars and moon are hidden by a vast disturbance that makes the sea roar with gusty winds up to 25 knots and formed waves that I estimate between 3 and 4 meters.<\/span>

The wide upwind gait allows me to cut through waves with speeds close to 11 knots.<\/span>

In the middle of the Pacific, boats serve as hotels for albatrosses.<\/span>

During the day they follow us, flying above us to hunt for the flying fish floating above the water harassed by JK’s hull, at night they use us as a resting station.<\/span>

Because of the amount of “poop” they constantly rain down on us, we renamed these birds “bombers.”<\/span>

JK’s black sails are now a Punchinello outfit.<\/span>

Tonight there are 5 bombers squatting on the bowsprit, the extreme part of the boat’s bow.<\/span>

Their presence makes this night at the helm even stronger and more compelling.<\/span>

JK without moon and stars sails shrouded in total blackness.<\/span>

The bow slams into the waves and turns them into mirrors of water on which, illuminated by the red and green bow lights, reflect the silhouettes of albatrosses.<\/span>

I am still in a coma it is over but the night is long and I will spend it in the company of bombers and other rock guitars in the dark of the ocean sky.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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