Time to say Goodbye.

Right after arriving in Guadeloupe, the skippers already had to think about preparing the Mini’s for their transport back to Europe.

That meant tidying up the boat, cleaning and drying everything, make sure no stuff stays onboard that could make problems with customs and deliver the boat from Saint Francois to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. This was a very special and emotional day for me. Since I decided to sell my Mini, it meant that this was my last sail with my beautiful Mojo. Just writing about it makes me cry, it’s really not easy to say goodbye after such intense years of solo sailing on this boat and especially after crossing an ocean with Mojo.

I did the delivery sail with my boyfriend Jade and it was a perfect day for a last sail. It was sunny with a nice breeze. And of course, one more thing had to go wrong - when we were being towed out through the quite tricky little channel out of the harbour of Saint Francois, the pulpit, where I had attached the towing line, broke. It was very wavy in this channel and it was my mistake that I didn’t put the towing line around the mast. But we reacted quickly, hoisted sails and luckily made it out of the channel on our own and without further problems. :)

Then it was one more time to hoist all the sails - Code 0 and Spi Max - I tried to suck it all in and enjoy as much as possible. After 2 hours we arrived in Pointe-à-Pitre and the work started. Dismasting, putting all the ropes inside and get the boat ready for another Atlantic crossing, this time on a Cargo ship.

When we did the takeover of the boat by the transport company and when they sealed my Mojo for the transport, I started realising that that was it. When we left the Cargo area on a rib and I looked back to my Mini in the distance, I couldn’t help but secretly shed a few tears there… it was time to say goodbye. See you on the other side, my Mojo!

See you on the other side, Mojo!