Day 90

06 March 2019

It’s a nice round date – 90 days on my journey.  For 90 days, my home has been a rowboat 9-metres long along the waterline.  The bow compartment is 3 metres, while the cockpit is 2 metres long.  The aft section, with the navigational compartment on one side and kitchen on the other, and a resting area in the aft is 4 metres.  I keep my equipment and food supplies in the bow, and all I do in the cockpit is row.  My main living areas are the navigational compartment and rest area.

When it was lowered into the water, the boat seemed big at first.  But when I went out into the Southern Ocean, I immediately understood that it is like a grain of sand out here.  Everything is relative.  Our planet seems so large, but in the scope of the Universe, we are dust.

I have passed a significant psychological milestone – it is fewer than 2,000 miles to Cape Horn.  1,970, to be exact.  I have crossed 120 degrees West longitude.  It took me 22 days to travel 10 degrees East.

Today I received a message from schoolchildren from the township of Beregovoy, in the Zeisk District of the Amur Oblast.  They write that they have been following my voyage on a map and have been examining the changes in weather conditions.  I am glad that my voyage is inspiring children to learn about weather conditions in the Southern Ocean.

This year, God willing, I am planning to complete another flight into the stratosphere on the hot air balloon “Rossiya”.  We are investigating several regions for the starting point: Yakutia, the Amur Oblast, and others.  If I end up in the Amur Oblast, I will definitely visit the school and give a geography lesson.  For now, I have some homework for the students: “Learn about the Circumpolar Current or the Current of the Western Winds”; “What makes the Drake Strait special?”; and “when did the Southern Ocean officially become considered the fifth ocean on our planet?”

The weather is stormy, the wind is over 30 knots, but I am glad that it is North-Westerly.  The boat is on course.

Regards to all,
Fedor Konyukhov

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