Thu Nov 28 2019 00:56:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
I wonder if I’ll ever get used to the sounds Pulsar makes at night. Every sound is magnified because seeing is harder.
What is that low thundering noise? It’s new…ah, just the wind rippling over our dodger.
Squeak, squeak…just the reef lines on the boom. Gotta fix that soon, squeaks are annoying.
Thwap, snap, shudder…the genoa collapsed, filled, and snapped out. This one is particularly hard to sleep through.
Beep beep beep beep beep beep. The autopilot telling me a wind shift is happening. This one gets my heart racing every time even though I know what the sound is.
**I Interrupt to let you know we just surfed down a wave at 9.5kts! **
Then there are all the clinks and clanks and thumps as items shift around in the galley, lockers, and bins. Or the unknown THUMP against the hull that says you hit something, but what? You can’t see it. Maybe it was a clump of kelp, or a crab pot. A fish? A wave? A …?
~Karri
S/V Pulsar 