
1. What is your name?
Anna Bakowska
2. Where are you from?
Zambrow, Poland
3. What is your occupation?
Engineering geologist
4. What is your role on the boat?
Chef de board, main cleaner, nonstop talker, beauty consultant, boat tailor,
sweets vacuum, alcohol tanker, anchor operator, bow navigator and captain's
biggest critic.
5. Describe your previous sailing experience.
North Atlantic during 8 month trip on STS "Fryderyk Chopin,"many trips
on the Baltic Sea - mainly sailed "praojcow" route on SYS "Fryderyk
Chopin",
2 months racing /Grenada-Aruba-Panama-Galapagos on s/v "Mantra Asia".
More than 6 months trip /Galapagos-Marquisas-Tuomotus-Society Islands-Tonga-Fiji
/on s/v "Audentes".
6. What is the worst thing about sailing with Aaron?
His unpredictable moods.
7. What do you think about Americans?
Ice cream, brownies, and peanut butter fans
8. If you could sail across the Pacific with any four people, who would you
choose?
Mr. Fair Wind, Ms. Good Weather, Mrs. Clear Water, and Ms. Cajones Mufez.
9. If you were to sail in the Pacific again, which places would you visit?
Easter Island, Marquesas, Moorea, Raitea, and Fiji
10. If you could sail anywhere in the world, where would it be?
along Norway coast and around Iceland
11. If you could change one thing about Audentes, what would you change?
Outside access to chain locker and change engine for newer one
12. What, if anything, have you learned in the past six months?
Use the shortest possible synonyms in my Polish e-mails
13. What is your favorite place that you have visited in the Pacific?
Tahuata, Moorea, and Musket Cove
14. How many times each week do you think you mention how different you look
with blond highlights?
Not often enough as you're still counting.
15. If you had to identify yourself with one Family Guy character, who would
it be?
Brian and Lois Griffin
16. Would you rather get seasick, see blood, have white spots on your back,
or be forced to swim with your head underwater?
Get seasick.
17. What is the best book that you have read on Audentes?
Ryszard Kapuscinski "Heban" and "Podroze z Herodotem"
18. What is your favorite Polish joke?
oh, I really love all of them;)
19. How many times do you think you can listen to the same three Regina Spektor
songs before you get sick of them or Aaron kills you?
I will never be sick of them so tell me, please, two times before killing me.
I would be able to listen it really loud for the last time.
20. Given the choice, if you and Aaron were stranded on a desert island and
Aaron died and your only chance of survival was eating him, how would you cook
him?
He's already Cooked.
21. Will Aaron make it around the world alive?
If he goes in the good direction