5NM WEST OF EDEN NW BREEZE ROLL FROM THE SOUTH THE SEA IS DANCING SILVER SHE RISES RELUCTANTY AND LETS IT SLIP BY SHE HAS RACED MOST OF HER LIFE SHE KNOWS IT AND I FEEL IT NOT IN HER PRIME NOR OVER THE HILL I HEAR WHAT SHES FEELING "STEPHEN, DROP THAT #2, AND GET RID OF THEREEFS" BUT SHES KIND AND GENTLE AND SHES TEACHING ME TO SAIL WITH A TEAR IN MY EYE AND A LUMP IN MY THROAT OH WHAT A FEELING
Nice one. Thats where the magic is. I feel it all the time. Realising your place in the universe and life and what it all means and the boat under your feet. Nice.
No need to apologise in getting your position west of Eden. Plenty of top navigators with a proud history of doing the same.
I remember hearing the lady running the sked (at Penta Comstat ?) in the Montague Island race in the early 90's, querying a very forth right navigator who gave his position as roughly 2miles west of Canberra. You could hear the rest of his crew laughing in the background as he hastily corrected his co-ordinates.
I knew a snorkeler from eden, used to eat abalone.. theres one rock not on charts somewhere in twofold, huge mussels and secret lobster nook... Cannot stop laughing that as one proudly sailor cruising along, snorkel man decides to stand on reef barely two feet below low tide. How can i describe a sailors antics when he realises something is very very wrong? Umm, yeah! Vote 1 fer sex dahlings...
