Sea-Stories...Dropping LSD with the Skipper
01 August 2012 | ~3days back up the Race-Track
E.T. - Navigator
No Shit...there we were...On Watch with Tony at 3am
Only an hour to go before we are relieved and we are tired.
No - not just tired - more than that!
We are Jib-Reaching and I am having trouble staying on Course...
I keep thinking "a flappy jib is an unhappy jib" and the damn thing
keeps flapping! Seems that the Compass is Overdamped or something
because every time I look at it the course has changed?
Tony says "Watch the Jib" & I say "Heading Up"...
And then things start getting really wierd!
I can see a Castle with people on the Battlements right infront on the Boat!
I finally decide to broach the subject with Tony...
"Do you see a Castle infront of the Boat?"
Tony says "Nop - It's OK because I see Pine Trees to Starboard & I know they are not there."
I check to Starboard and confirm "Nop - no Pine Trees to Starboard"
BUT "I see a bunch of Yachts in thier Berths - are we near any Harbors?"
Tony says "Nop - we are in the middle of the Pacific"
Oops...a flappy Jib is a unhappy Jib - "Heading UP"
But Tony is sensing we are sailing down a Channel with a Weather&Lee shore
So I ask "Should we check the Chart anyway?"
Tony says "Nop - we are in the middle of the Pacific"
Hallucinations are part of Sleep Deprevation and we had them both!
Not sure whether we had a good Trip together but it sure helped to
be able to compare notes - the Jib&Compass were the only things
we could rely on that night.
Simon :)