Sailing Bear and Seal

Champagne sailing. Spinnaker is up, seas are down, wind is balanced and sailing is divine. Really can’t ask for better weather these days.

Folks, the center of that picture above is where we are heading. Right to the center of the South Pacific.

Sailing around the full moon is an experience all on its own. During my night watches, I will sit at the helm and watch the ocean all around me, The Southern Cross is up, the clouds and squalls are easy to see and navigate away from and it is a genuinely relaxing experience. The fish can see the light and will swim over out of curiousity. The bigger fish are following the littler fish as a food source and the dolphins will follow them. More than once I’ve been startled from my book because something is breathing in the water right next to me. You can hear the dolphins break the surface for air (and yes, it startles the heck outta me). Five days after the full moon the bioluminescence hit their beak and the waves created by the boat will glow with life. You can see the bioluminescence spark when the fish move through them. Unfortunately with low light/ high movement conditions, I do not have a camera that will capture them. You’ll just have to come sailing with us to see it yourselves.

It is easy for me to determine which photos in my phone’s Photo Roll are sunsets and which are sunrises. As we head due west, the front of the boat is facing sunset. Which results in the sunrises being due east.

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