2025-08-11
23 分钟Coming up on Lives Less Ordinary, Hold Fast continues.
We are all looking at each other a bit like astonished, a bit confused.
Can I actually get off the ship at some point?
How am I supposed to go back home?
How am I supposed to reach the people that I love?
This is the extraordinary story of sailing cargo ship the Avantour and its crew of 15 on a wind-powered mission to transport olive oil,
cacao, coffee and rum between Europe and Central America.
But before they even make it halfway, everything they're counting on is thrown to the winds.
I'm Siobhan McSweeney and you're listening to Lives Less Ordinary Presents.
Hold fast.
From the BBC World Service.
It's the 18th of March 2020.
Two weeks have passed
since the Avantour left the Canary Islands and now they're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
heading west,
carried by the trade winds towards the Caribbean for their next port of call in the small island of Guadeloupe.
Like any community, ocean-going ships crews have their own shared language and traditions.
Seafarers sometimes wish each other a journey in fair winds and following seas.
It means good luck, a kind of sailor's blessing.
And these are the conditions in which we rejoin ships cook Giulia Boccosi as the avanteur sails on across the Atlantic.