Over the last few days, we’ve been anticipating it, comparing positions and keeping our fingers crossed – and now it’s actually happened:
CHRONOS, RHEA and KAIRÓS have met for the first time ever in the open Atlantic.
There has never been a meeting of all three yachts in all these years – and the fact that this historic rendezvous would also take place in the middle of the Caribbean, far from any coastline, makes it all the more special.
For our crews and guests, this moment was hard to put into words:
Our three yachts, side by side, on the open sea.
Waving together, amazement, photos, pure emotion.
An experience that will surely stay with everyone on board for a lifetime.
You can’t plan moments like these – but when they happen, you know why you love the sea
What to say about yesterday that would do justice in words what we experienced here on board?
After Rhea finally shook of the YuYu that was being VooDoo’d upon us all morning long she took the metaphorical bit in-between her teeth on sight of not one but two sets of sail on the horizon and started galloping. The other two had to come up to meet us as we’d been stuck on a more northerly course trying to keep a resemblance of speed to reach them in the golden hour.
Kairos being closer, reached us first and put up all sails ahead of us and matched our course as Rhea, with her re-found joy of being a fast and steady sailing machine, rolled in alongside the original and first of the fleet. And that’s when Chronos having kept a little more distance, to let the older and the young have their moment, set all her sails and pointed her bow towards us and with tremendous speed pulled up on the portside of Kairos to make the first ever Sailing Classics Ocean reunion a fact.
Within shouting distance of each other, greetings, jokes or simply waves and pictures were exchanged between the ships (we had to keep a watchful eye on our Yogurt as we are the only SC ship left with it, and we all know a simple lack of yogurt at sea might set even the most decent of people on a path of piracy…)
Regardless of crew or guest, multiple time repeater or with us for the very first time. It was a moment in which everyone was present and aware that we were sharing something unique, and I believe that everyone could feel the light and warmth that the souls of the ships radiated, prancing under full canvas together for the first time on the Atlantic Ocean with a 1000+ miles behind us and a 1000+ more in front.
This is how we stayed, three ships born of the same dream, to make classical sailing yachts available to everyone, following the blue highway into the sunset like it was 1495.
As the dark of night swallowed the light of day, the lights of the rigging and the navigational lights came alive. To show everyone that even in the dark, the tree sisters still sailed together. And when each ship felt it was time to resume the ploughing of their own paths, gathering speed and slowly extending the distance between the ships again, those lights became a part of the night sky. Blending among the stars that were quietly observing, leaving us again with the impression that we’re all alone in a world of blue fluidity. Instead now we know for sure… we are not.
What a day yesterday! Meeting the 2 bigger sisters in the middle of this great expanse of water that is the Atlantic Ocean.
The day started slowly, we had to reduce sail and slow down to allow Rhea to catch up with us, but then, the sight of Rhea on full sails approaching Kairos from starboard while Chronos was closing onto us from port side!!! Great sight, everyone enjoyed it, greetings and jokes were exchanged between the crews and guests of the 3 boats. That was truly an experience we all were glad to have been part of.
The excitement of the close encounter was followed by a nice fast sail NW towards the changing colors of a great sunset, with the shape of faster Rhea and Chronos slowly disappearing below the horizon.
Then, after a well-deserved tasty dinner prepared by Tina, Kairos Team went back to his Night Navigation routine and a quiet night followed.
Fair winds!
After lunch, the excitement grew – today wasn’t just reunion day for the three sisters. It was history. For the first time ever, all three of our Sailing Classics ladies met each other out on the open Atlantic during their crossing. As the middle child of this nautical family – younger than Kairos, older than Rhea – we waited for the elder to draw near and guided the little one along.
By afternoon everyone was on deck – crew, guests, binoculars, cameras, and a whole lot of goosebumps. When less than a mile separated us, the magic really set in: colleagues waving from one sister, familiar voices through the radio and smiles everywhere you looked. Even from land, the team in the office followed the moment with the same wide grins – after all, how often do you get to witness your entire fleet meeting in the middle of the ocean?
Once the emotional sister-huddle had been fully soaked in, we rolled out Fisherman and Jib again and slipped back into our steady 8.5 knots, later pushed to 10 knots by a friendly E breeze.
Around midnight, the Fisherman went in, we jibed southwest and still kept a solid 9 knots under a sky full of stars and glowing water. A day to remember – so special that even Engineer Mariusz, after 17 years in the company, experienced a true “first.” And when he says that, you know it was unforgettable.
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