Friday, November 23, 2007

Motoring to a new destination



Day 7. Today we motored from Ko Olina marina to the Hawaii Yacht Club marina right next to the famous Waikiki Beach.

The ride in the boat was about 4 hours long and pretty uneventful except that with plenty of diesel fumes and having to go below deck to pee, I managed to get fairly decently sea sick! I sat quietly leaning against the mast and looked at the horizon as instructed by Louis but I still felt waves of nausea and broke out in a sweat. Then I start to yawn and feel an overwhelming drowsiness. Jules yelled out "OMG, she's gone yellow!" and I gave a brave but weak smile and said I was alright. What I was really thinking was "Thank Goodness, we're gettig close to shore and moving into calmer waters. but Holy Shit what am I going to be like when we have 12 solid days of sailing out at sea on our way to the Marshall Islands. I can easily imagine myself wanting to throw myself over the side just to end the revolting feeling of being sick. All I can say is thank goodness for drugs. And every cloud has a silver lining. Maybe I'll trim down a few kilos!!

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