New Friends, Memorable Places

Snow Dragon has a way of making herself memorable. While walking back to our dinghy at Trinityhamma, the crew of the Polish yacht Whisper 2, came up to us and asked, "where you in the Azores last summer?” It turned out that we had shared an anchorage with them on Pico, one of our favorite stops during our transatlantic crossing. Though we had not met at the time, they remembered Snow Dragon.

Not wanting to miss another chance to get to know Whisper, we invited them over for coffee and dessert. Over bread pudding we exchanged stories of how we ended up in the Azores and then Svalbard. The crew of Whisper are four friends who recently graduated from university. Piotreu and Magdalena purchased Whisper, a Cal 29 in Michigan and sailed to Poland via the Caribbean before heading to Svalbard. With various friends joining them along the way.

Though Snow Dragon and Whisper could not have been more different, both are well set up for offshore sailing and challenging anchoring conditions. This reflects our shared philosophy that the world needs to be explored beyond the mainstream tourist destinations and one must be self sufficient while doing so. A common sense approach that is unfortunately followed by very few.

It was a memorable evening and we look forward to sharing another anchorage with Whisper 2.