From Slimy Pollywog to Shellback - Race 2 of leg 1 started September 9

The ceremony of Crossing the Line is an initiation rite in various Navies to commemorate a sailor's first crossing of the equator. Seasoned sailors (Shellbacks) would use the initiation ceremony to test and roughen up their new shipmates (Slimy Pollywogs) to withstand the long harsh times at sea.

September 9, 2013 we start Race 2 from Brest, France to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - crossing the Atlantic ocean and the equator, with three weeks in total at sea covering 4812 sea miles. Wild weather to start with - they warned us already to take our sea sickness tablets :-(   and then we will catch the trade winds toward the warm weather and the equator. I don't look forward to the heat and the doldrums, but they say that when a squall hits we can grab our shampoo, head up on deck to have a shower - yeah! Of course, us Slimy Pollywogs will also experience the line crossing ceremony when King Neptune will perform the initiation rite and cover us in slop so that we can become proud Shellbacks.

It's going to be hard, it's going to be fun - it's going to be an experience!!!!!

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(Estimated arrival in Rio is October 1)

PSP Logistics crew upon arrival in Brest.