Monday 30 November - Trade Wind Sailing
The air is clean. The sky, very light blue at the horizon is deep blue overhead. White puffy clouds. The ocean has settled in a regular wave pattern after three days of Force 4 (12 kt) wind. The boat motion is rather dramatic, rolling mostly, but regular so it is easy to take. We are not sailing fast, but we made 100 miles yesterday and that is my "budget", 100 miles a day. This is easy sailing, in fact beautiful sailing. It is the part of the experience I wish I could share. Nothing around the horizon except two birds that fly by, then go far away and in ten minutes come back by. A lot of sargasso. Great fields of it. Most of it is floating just below the surface, and it has "sprouts" reaching up above the surface about an inch, like sprouts coming up out of the earth. Coveys of flying fish erupting from the water and flying off downwind. What a privilege it is to experience this.
Reef Early
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II
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