Your descriptions make me Jones to be back on the water - being isolated five hours inland wears on you when you're a natural water baby!
I loved this: "...the Borg-like transformation into “part boat” (a slight change in pitch makes your eyebrows raise, or a half knot change in the current makes you sit up and take notice)..."
Yes! When I sailed from Hawaii to California one summer, I was astonished to see how fast that happened. Even to the point that a slight wind shift, or pick up in a following sea, or even when the skipper makes a one-degree course change - I think you really do become one with the boat!
Your descriptions make me Jones to be back on the water - being isolated five hours inland wears on you when you're a natural water baby!
I loved this: "...the Borg-like transformation into “part boat” (a slight change in pitch makes your eyebrows raise, or a half knot change in the current makes you sit up and take notice)..."
Yes! When I sailed from Hawaii to California one summer, I was astonished to see how fast that happened. Even to the point that a slight wind shift, or pick up in a following sea, or even when the skipper makes a one-degree course change - I think you really do become one with the boat!
Thanks! Careful the Borg doesn’t take over entirely, you’ll go broke!
Cheers,
J
Resistance is futile . . .
John, thanks much for the voyage log and helping this East Coaster imagine more clearly your Northwest waterways!
You bet! CT boy myself. Glad you enjoyed the trip.