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Odyssey Kiana
Saint Augustine, Florida
Solo sailing since 2018. 4 full Atlantic crossings, plus some in between. On a spectrum I imagine falling somewhere between Waterworld and Kon-Tiki. Available for catamaran deliveries :)
They say the race was called off, but I’m pretty sure we were all still doing it.
Hey everyone! As some of you might know, I’m about to launch a documentary, Women & the Wind, following my North Atlantic crossing in 2022 with two other women aboard my 50-year-old cat, Mara Noka! We’re hosting 3 main premiere events around the world and as part of our Community Screening campaign, we’re also offering an exclusive deal to our SeaPeople community, so you can host your own screening and bring the film to your anchorage ;) Here’s how: 📺 Host a Community Screening of the upcoming Women & the Wind documentary 🍻 Gather up to 30 crew and screen the film for a flat license fee of USD$50 (unique for SeaPeople users) 🛜 Must apply via our online host a community screening application form https://www.womenandthewind.com/screening ⏰ If in USA region, screenings must be held AFTER April 19th 🇪🇺 EU/UK region, after April 26th 🌏 All other regions after April 19 ☀️ Offer valid until mid-June 🎫 Applies for only ONE (non-ticketed) screening event 🎞️ Cinema events or gatherings of more than 30ppl are not applicable for the $50 rate (can still apply to host a screening) 🔱 To be eligible for the offer, folks must note in the application form they are SeaPeople users I CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE THE FILM WITH YOU ALL! And can’t wait to see all of the raft-up movie nights that will come from this. Thanks for all your support along the way 🩵
Happy New Year wishes to all from Mara Noka, Rock, and me!!! May 2025 bring us all fair winds and following seas (and good fish and great sunsets). Cheers and big love ♥️
How is everyone in Florida??? My thoughts and prayers will be with everyone in the state. My family included. And all of you with boats in a potentially precarious situation. Please be safe.
Just poppin’ in to share another one of these unbeatable Brazilian sunsets…
Had a respite from the rain for a couple of days. The sun is out! Had a family packed weekend and got enough vitamin D to sustain me for the rainy week ahead.
This was my favorite crossing of all. Doldrums, squalls, no wind, thunderstorms, trade winds, and my first time crossing the equator under sail. (I posted the track backwards again ☹️ departure Tarrafal de Santiago and arrival Ilhabela). You can read the full crossing journal on my Patreon, but here’s a little excerpt: Day #16 What a dreary day… It has been raining since last night. And after every squall, the wind dies. Funny how heaven itself can become hell in just 100 miles… One of the patches on the main we stitched on during the last Atlantic crossing started tearing, so during the last lull I brought the main down for the time being. I need it to dry a bit before I can tape it up, and hopefully that will be sufficient. But for now it’s raining and I’m just bobbing around… This morning I thought a terrible thought: “I’m not going to make it.” But I did not mean it as a general statement. It’s just that there are a few possibilities: that I will be stuck in the doldrums forever; that I won’t have any sails left; that I will get pushed too far west to be able to beat into the trades; or that I simply won’t make it in time to see my brother, or spend Christmas with my father, or New Years with friends, or to renew my Brazilian residency — the primary reason for the timeliness of this voyage. Needless to say, I had an anxiety-ridden morning, and lost sorely to the rain when I tried to compete with my tears. The sun eventually came out to save me from myself. I had a dance party, ate breakfast, and washed dishes while the mainsail dried, and then taped up the tear before pulling it back up. I noticed a pretty bad tear starting on the foresail also. I’d need to pull it down to patch because the tear is at the top, and technically it would be possible to do it right now as there is barely a breeze, but unfortunately the lack of wind is only due to the giant looming back cloud coming my way.
(Shit, going backwards again by accident 😅) 30 days of no wind, lots of wind, many broken things, and the most beautiful week of sailing where I didn’t even have to adjust sails or my trusty sheet-to-tiller steering system.
(I accidentally posted the trips track the wrong way. We left from St. Augustine and arrived in Masonboro Island). Mara Noka’s first sail upon leaving the boatyard after a 14 month haul out and total refit. Fun trip, smooth sailing, and a fun night on the Gulf Stream with 18 knots of wind from the hind quarter.
