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Hi everyone,

We have some big news to share.

As you know, our sail from Saint Helena to Brazil was our most challenging yet, not because of the ocean or the weather but because we literally ran out of energy (first our batteries, then our bodies).

As with all challenging experiences something beautiful came out of it 5 days before we arrived in Brazil.

We had been hand steering for 10 days by that time at 2 hour shifts and 1 proper meal a day. Dimi came off his shift at 6am and I went on shift. In the previous 2 hours we had both been having the same thought unknowingly.

Before Dimi went to sleep he said: I have a crazy idea, I thought and said, ‘oh no’ and laughed. And he said, ‘should I rather not say it?’, and I said ‘no please tell me’. Then he said what I had been thinking in the hours before:

‘I think when we get home we should adopt a baby’.

We will start this process when we get back to Cape Town but we wanted to share our happy news with everyone in the meantime.

We don’t know for sure how long the process will take and obviously there are no guarantees but that’s where we are at.

💗