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Watch out! Cowboys in sight!

© Hervé Giorsetti / Groupe Bel

Hello everyone. OK, so this time we're going to be ahead of schedule. This boat makes headway too fast. But how do you slow her down? And yet there's only a moderate wind. It was even quite calm this morning, but no matter what we do the boat glides through the water. As a result, we're going to have to stand by tonight as we arrive in Syria, while we wait for the sun to rise to enter the harbor.

We ran along Cape Greco to the south east of Cyprus and the local coastguards raced after us, just like real cowboys, but they found it hard to follow us with their powerful inflatable, and we found it hard to communicate with the VHF and their impossible accent, but they finally understood that this strange red boat was called Cochise and that she had no intention of stopping at Cyprus, and there are far better things to do further east, and it has to be said, a cow is quite harmless, isn’t it?

Night is falling and the salami is ready!

 

Kito & his crew
17:00 UT
35°08N 34°34E
60 miles from Lattaquie

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