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Four days later, Moluccas finally appeared on the horizon. The decision to go here was made at the last moment, no flight, a map of only a small scale and, in addition, the echo sounder stopped working. We chose an island for good luck, amid a gathering of dark spots that are on our map represent the archipelago.

The Earth is large, has the shape of a ball and rotates around its axis. One of the consequences of these well-known facts is the presence of three climatic regions. Polar, where it is always cold, moderate, where it is hot or cold depending on the season, and the tropics, where it is always hot.

Really bad weather in tropical seas does not happen so often. Violent, dangerous and destructive storms, a rarity. However, those who are going to go out to sea and spend several years there should be prepared for the fact that sooner or later they will face them. As for our experience, for eighteen years of navigation, really strong storms into which we fell can be counted on the fingers of one hand.