At just 12 years old he set out in a catamaran with his parents! (2/3)
In MW174, our youngest contributor told us about the very beginning of his round-the-world trip aboard a multihull bought in New Caledonia. We take up the story again as he leaves Vanuatu to cross the Pacific Ocean before diving into the Indian Ocean...
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Publié le
18/05/2021
Par
Jonathan Jagot
Numéro :
178
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Jul.
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2021
We were really starting this journey - I was finally aware of it and it was too big a thing for me to get my head around. Being twelve years old, I just couldn’t get over the fact that we had left New Caledonia for real. As we moved further and further out to sea, I could see the New Caledonian landscape fading away. No... I still believed that we would eventually turn around and go back... It took me a good day or so to get used to the idea that this wasn’t the case. I remember the lights of Efaté in Vanuatu as we made our first night arrival: tears rolled down my cheeks without me even reali…