Busy Day
Dan woke up around eight this morning and announced he couldn’t go back to sleep anymore, not even if his life depended on it. I, on the other hand, had…
Peeing Overboard
First thing half the people assess when stepping on a small boat is finding a location to pee from? Just a fact, because, what’s more important than finding a safe…
Becalmed. Now What?
Yesterday the wind died. It didn’t slowly diminish, it didn’t stop with a last hooray, like a car engine with a clogged fuel filter, giving you one more time a…
Drunken Sailors
He sits at the table behind me and then a little to the left. All by his lonesome self, but don’t look now. I’d say about 60 or so, slightly…
Out of the Zone into the Trades
Weather is very unpredictable, to say the least. Every evening captain Dan downloads weather forecasts, computer generated ones, which he then studies intensely before telling me what the predictions are…