European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Be coastal breaker sea Ravel would be impossible. But a or in Ocean Waves rotates in a vertical Circle within the in like a Hamster s Treadmill so you Ravel up and Over few Waves Are abrupt and Sassy befitting their youth. Older Waves lengthen out and arc More comfortable if by wave that lips dinner on deck and makes getting Reed i five minute ordeal can be termed comfortable. Pro. I 7,613-fool to ctn in the azores can be Kim 1w Eliott off but it it most Toga today. We Takt in dead oof la Mth tit help of a Earlmer Fra a inf Flemiter Byln Jurii la a injured a to. A tit up Jooi jew May la Loftt Alft Taoan 13 other wander by Uil Cati. Taos with u bar owo1 of fluid by for part � a be sport tit with u not Flor need head for be to Siren. Of t Sand bom trite limited water Drouil lieu is Lett to fold Lmh. It b next to impossible. Seven lasses of Pico red a Cai Ulic local wine Sontan platoon. The a is eternal. But it has no nory note. The land voyager marts his paid go by Twining into plaint by Lens. Wall s drug store 198 Fiji Haddam thickly settled by Tea one � wire having Bermuda an Ewel daubed by flame in Blue and Coral Homes where everyone Speaks b. There u Fiat craggy Tifft terraced with Emerald to Fildi and tide Walki pair lovingly inlaid Wilh do of pm com and maltese crosses where Honiara fort suck. Yet the sea Hai longer de gun of guava inc. There Are Only pencilled Lino and Orion pm lower each evening to indicate distance and Lime Mil with a Aeck mulled Wisdom of the sea in it fact eventually someone will cry As did Columbus s i few 7, 1980 Young Masthead Lookout Rodrigo de Triana Tirra now in a cafe the land impinges again. The Man it inc Newit fable has sailed of the Way from South Africa a Register his boat in Holland so he won t suffer re Vars apartheid when calling at ports outside his Homeland the land has a memory. Day seventeen ashore. A Young american  walks Down the Quay in a to whirl imprinted save the  Horiatis a genial Folk look i expressive. A Lookout perches High on of Iii looking for whales. His rocket signal will bring men Rush ing to launch longboat. The annual catch is Down to 1 5 or so no longer a living. Hort in to shirts Are Apt to Sny  Day ei3hteen after a Midnight depart i we have Pico in sight for almost All of a windless Blue Day. We Power id Santa Maria  of the azores and Columbus s firs landfall after his discovery. Ten of his sailors rowed ashore to give thanks and were temporarily imprisoned by a suspicious official. We take on i Csc in cans from a Skiff and a new crewman. He replaces one of the originals left in Horta by the owner in a dispute that will not win the owner Yac Wilsman of inc year the of c s be is Sumon if not mutinous. But a ship a not a democracy and jumping one u not undertaken lightly. The ship Marci no such Fine . She asks Only 10 be truly sailed without regard for the quirks of human personality perhaps hidden on land but difficult to mask in the Colic co Finci of the sea. The boat has posed another Hal Trige to her human cargo. She prevails we sail for Gibraltar. 1,000 Miles the East. Day Twenty the onion Supply is dwindling. The remaining potatoes Are sprouting. A few meals remain in he Freezer. We dip into a vast Supply of cans. Topside greater shearwaters hurtle in a brisk wind  the Waves like skimming boomerangs. Smaller Petreh skitter just above the water never alighting on it. Porpoises snort tinder the Bow until they weary of the port. Farther off huge sperm whales loll in the swells like floating Sequoia logs spewing water vapor with their breath Poesy has called he sea empty. Poesy  May be the most numerous Bird on Earth. Their name derives from St. Peter Tor the Way their Webb Cri feet seem la walk on water As they flutter endlessly fishing. Shearwater Are Birds of the wind. They can barely Lake off in a Calm. But when wind and sea arc afoot they iwo Oji up the air current from a onrushing roller Bank vertically and knife downwind of High Speed. They Fly for Miles playing the up drafts without a move of their Long narrow wings. They arc fighter pilots. We anti in Nuitt Ajili Luid pm Tiro thur Ltd to tin a cling u ctr do in to origin of lift. Tok sperm a talc try rip of Oce i Cumah of mining on Siirid " Urf � do Ftp. Spunn a Tats i one of tin few  beings in nature. Their blow Boft u Belr port Tutt will for iof. What a fur Tutt rat tory of ill be up Tom Cluj of in the so Alcaen Oettl Wil ooze Lilaa to. This night a fireball the Noil largest ten up from a shooting liar scorches Cross the sky like a flicked cigarette butt. No. Not empty. Day Twenty one the Thip to Shore has one of the world s noteworthy backyard fences the transoceanic radio nation at Porti Shead England Well in Range. The air is crowded with writer Sid Moody taking Sextant Reading from Sun. Voices of , to  a sea in inc Straits of Malacca of Jolly tars off Capetown in Frank Anglo Sanon promising their sauce res Hack hem what Imp ends on their return of mums asking father what inc weather is in Auckland and wharf my is it ind the roses Are Lovely this year. T land Lali reveals a Volcano erupted in the United states Lodas ago. The baseball strike did t come off. A freighter Rudics he is bound empty for Tampa to irad cheaper Bunker fuel. We be heard the Pori is closed because a Bridge was knocked Down we reply feeling somehow a loss of innocence in bearing tidings of land. A nigh he moans. We learn an american Singie hander bound for England spent two Days in the water when his catamaran Over turned. Could it have been the flare we saw no we were More than a Day away inc charts indicate. Day Twenty two a windblown barn Swallow take shelter in the Cabin but Dies despite offers of water and crumbs. We Bury it at 5c,i in a match Box weighted by a Golf Ball. Land. Day Twenty three clean shirts emerge from lockers. Small talk begins to include airline reservations. The navigator brings out coastal charts. They Bear exotic names Casablanca Trafalgar Palos. Columbus s departure port. San Lucar do Barrameda Magellan s. Landmarks include   the water is Green no longer Ocean Blue. The boat too. Senses land. She Heads for the Bam at eight knots some times nine. She bowl along in a concen of sound Tum bling Waves shouldered aside by the Lee Bow falsetto winds strumming he rigging inc Towel snaps of the . Ensign. Loom us Mriln a but fix of Han bump by acini arabs and babylonian urn More Ungro ounce cute ism Iran Fortl i Man Buttri Alp anti  Southern claw of lib. Tucy to Ltd lit plot Siciu ind in und will gut Bow to comr. Til we to Fain Arciano. On m tided by a full new of Bowel Biol of Polaris to Fine tune in Coonc for a Jill on Cape Trafalgar. At 0500 the net morning Tierra Spain dead ahead. Africa looms to starboard. The log Rotor stripped of its Chrome finish from 14 Days in the water is reeled in. U measured 3,%5 nautical Miles. Atlantic crossed. The stars Aud stripes Page 13