QLD
285 posts
Thought I'd kick off a new forum topic to take our minds off the impending Monday morning (ugh!)....so....memorable sailing moments.
-Sailing into PNG with a 'herd?', 'flock', 'mob' or what ever you call about two hundred dolphins doing dolphin stuff, chopping up the water, all around the yacht :).
-Lying in the cockpit one drifter of a night in the South China Sea watching a meteor shower unfold overhead....stopped counting when I reached 100 falling stars :).
-Sailing North late in the season...taking two days to arrive....eight days to punch back South....making five miles, sailing eight hour days....crashing, wet, constant water over the bow...nothing but happy, fatigue and satisfaction in a peaceful anchorage at night..reminding you you're alive :).
-Snorkelling face to face with the Maori Wrasse as big as me.
-Watching the Giant Cod eat, yes eat, the spiky puffer fish.....
Share your own.
QLD
2195 posts
Nice!
swimming with a dolphin playing with him for hours at an anchorage, then lying on deck reading a book before bed while he circled the boat til we crashed out. He escorted us out of the bay the following morning.
waking up to a dolphin fishing around the boat at anchor. He was catching big breams.
yesterday a a pod of dolphins in the harbour near Balmain and a seal..
whale breaching while we were sailing from Pittwater to Sydney...
NSW
235 posts
Great topic after Sunday night BBQ and a couple of reds.
I could talk about some of the sailing in the carribean, or across the pacific years ago, how we didnt touch a sheet or brace for 3 days, between Galapagos - marquesas, eventually dropping sails to check for chafe...."..but
One of the best sails I often recall was after a race up to pittwater.....the delivery back to Sydney.
One a little 27footer, with a good mate, the owner, we came around barrenjoey, late on Saturday..........last of the nor'easter blowing, about 6-8 knots, we set the kite....the kite didn't flog or rag at all, the boat hardly rocked, the sea was flat, no one else out there, doing about 3-4 knots, sunset, not much food other than cheese & bickies, a few rums.....
Took about 3-4 hours no rush, got to the heads and I suggested we get the motor going....mate said no we can gybe this, so we did, just the 2 of us half stung in the dark, in thru the heads, gybed again, got to Bradley's head, gybed again, sailed right back up into Mosman bay with a shy kite, dumped the kite & virtually sailed into the SASC pontoon under main. Spent the night at the pontoon cleaned up in the morning.
Still one of the best sails I recall, beautiful night at sea, plenty of stars, the sea was so flat it was uncanny.
VIC
5904 posts
good one Meg ! the dolphin thing is great isn't it ? !
one day , while sailing in bass straight , we saw about 30 or forty little baby dolphins about two or three foot long go flying past our bow . then right up there clacker was 20 odd of the teen age crew 4 foot plus long . then the 20 or so mums and dads came through they were five to seven foot long !!
they looked like the were on a mission heading sth east at big speed !!
one of the most amazing sights i have ever seen !!!
