I was sitting in the cockpit reading,
the boat slowly rotating in the still, glassy ocean. I heard something
and looked up. Coming toward me were waves. Coming in a line as far as I
could see in both directions. Small waves, not over 2 feet, but many,
very close together, the kind of chop a swift running tide will make.
The boat started jerking and bobbing about. Not badly, hundreds of 2'
waves converging on the boat will not make it buck badly, but it was
bucking around. Still no wind, and my rate of drift had not changed. The
waves moved off to the south west and I could see slick water in front
of it as it moved away from me. They passed on by, and now the ocean is
slowly going back to the way it was before...An earthquake?
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II
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