It seems you can’t dream of a dead person; so Loïck must be alive. I am not surprised; he has a good boat and knows how to sail. But where is he? Where is Nicole? When we were leaving Plymouth she was putting the final touches on her steel cutter Esquilo and was soon to leave for the Caribbean. Where is she now? Where are Bill King and Nigel? Nigel is the one I think of most often, yet I have never seen him in my dreams. Good Lord! I hope nothing has happened to Nigel . . .