Memories on board an RM 1260, The Three Wise Men on the Atlantic Ocean

It’s Xmas eve, in the middle of the Atlantic. Hitchcok, our single-keeled RM1260, , left Lanzarotte a week ago, heading toward Martinique. Seas are, say, choppy. Tradewinds burst around 25 knots, with gusts in the high thirties. A huge North-North-West swell meets the wind’s waves. Under poled genoa, with one or two reefs in the …