(As "Babette" and her little crew of two swirl around in their own little world, reality is not too far away.)

Hurricane Epsilon was a long lasting hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season in late November and early December over the central Atlantic. Hurricane Epsilon was the twenty-seventh tropical or subtropical storm and the fifteenth hurricane of the season and was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded so late in the year.

Hurricane Epsilon developed from an extratropical storm on November 29

( Babette: Anchors at St. Lucia, an uninhabited Cape Verde island; the wind blowing up in the high 20’s in the anchorage, strong fall-winds).

in a hostile environment in the middle of the Atlantic. It reached hurricane strength on December 2

(Babette: last day in São Vicente, Cape Verde’s; Dec.3^rd, 09:00 we slip land, and head for the Caribbean, 1990nm away, with only vhf radio communication onboard)

despite a highly hostile environment. Epsilon then held onto hurricane status for several more days, frustrating the forecasters of the National Hurricane Center, before finally dissipating on December 8.

(Babette: December 7^th,16:oo, vhf contact with Dutch boats, “Lady Jean” and “Catch 22”. They read weather forecasts from grib-files, and give us their position And agree to make contact tomorrow.).

Thankyou Wikipedia for the Hurricane information.