our wind has finally dropped! It's down to 15kn, sea is moderating, swell has evened out, the sun is shining. It's still just the sky, the ocean and us, but it's a different ocean today. It glistens. The last week was not really so bad, but it felt bad. The motion was like a grumpy monster flicking us a bit. Now it's like we are rolling on a laughing belly, a joyous sea. We've changed sail, dropping main and arranging twin headsails and are running straight for Fatu Hiva, 600 miles to go.
I saw something today I've been wondering about. There are so many flying fish in the air I guessed they must occasionally have mid-air collisions, and sure enough, today I saw the awful smack of a flying fish head-on. I do hope they are OK! There are always some on deck, even little tiny one inch ones, and they leave a bit of slime and scale, so we are slowly developing the smell of a fishing boat.
I read that the Pacific is the part of the crust that the moon broke away from, that is why there are no continents out here. So we are sailing across the absence of moon.
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Bringing out the poet in you Rob. If the Med is 'wine dark' what colour is the eastern Pacific?
ReplyDeleteHa! I think flying fish leave the water when being chased as food by something bigger, so a head on collision would be the lesser of the options..
ReplyDeleteI love the story about your present Pacific location being the bit where the moon broke off We would have great difficulty to prove it?
There may be no continents yet,but there are a miriad of underwater mountain ranges and reefs, so more likely the volcanic action has not yet become powerful enough to raise a large enough mass?