Pornichet

We spend a couple of days in Pornichet to recover from our orca adventure. We thought we mainly needed some time to catch up on the hours of sleep we had missed. Turned out we mostly needed to recover mentally. After two days in Pornichet, during which we took our advantage that we were still in France which means we still have French bakeries waiting for us, we thought we were ready to move on and continue sailing south. Boy were we wrong.

As I was getting the boat ready for departure, Bart endured a panick attack at the thought of sailing again. We think on top of that the stress of being skipper, even though we both have just as much responsibility it might not always feel like that, for the past two months had build up mentally and emotionally. Luckily Marloes was able to help Bart through this strange but important moment.

We took another two days to calm down and mostly write and talk about what we had experienced and what it had done to us. I saw Bart lighten up and get more energized (read get more and more annoying again 😉) by the day. After 4 good nights and 5 days we decided to try and sail a little bit again. Just 16 nm to Île de Noirmoutier to see how it felt. After we shook off the nerves the first couple of minutes we enjoyed sailing, probably even more so than before. That was such a relief.Read more