It was time to leave Fiji.
Jess was sick for a couple of days. It started with his typical throwing up moving into a sinus coughing thing.
I also began feeling feverish and having sinus issues.
Tom was gone, so we had no more crew.
Brian put up fliers, posted on the internet, talked to folks.
No luck.
Up to now he had easily found people wanting to hitch a ride from one island to another in exchange for crewing on a boat. Especially this boat.
A great discussion ensued about whether we should head out to open water with just the 3 of us. Most of the concern was about whether Jess could handle taking his turn in the pilot house watching the monitors and outside for other boats for 3 hour shifts night and day for 3 days at sea.
We all wanted to continue, but we weren't sure about how it would go and there is no way Brian and I could handle doing all of it on our own alternating 3 on and 3 off the whole time. I mean it's doable - couples on sailing vessels do it all the time - but no one wanted to have to do it.
In the end, we left it up to Jess.
If he said he could do it, it meant a commitment that he couldn't get out of - quite the rite of passage (a good thing in my book) for a young man.
We decided to continue on . . .
Debbie Takara Shelor
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