A square rigged ship usually attracts some viewers, even if we are anchored. Small boats circle around us and people look astonished and take photos. We are quite used to it.
Today this was the case again a number of times.

This afternoon, Redmond O’Hanlon came to me to rapport the sight of some admirers who had impressed him. A type of boat that in our country generally is staffed by our eastern male neighbors filled with beer. But here it is the opposite.
Four, in tiny bath linen, young ladies could not resist the attraction of the clipper and jump off their cruiser into the Pacific to come on board. Not hindered by any sense of generation distance, Redmond threw himself on the swim platform to hoist the girls on board.

It is a shame for our Casanova that the immigration service told us that it is forbidden to get anyone on board. So our officer on duty had to send the girls back. There is probably no option to use an evolution theory about this phenomenon that 200 years back was characterized as a Tahiti feature and now is shown 3000 mile west.

Richard Slootweg
Captain Clipper Stad Amsterdam