We departed Bald Head Island at 8:45am. It was a calm day out on the ocean, with apparent winds 11-13 knots right on the bow. Ray gave me some Bonine which kept me feeling great all day long. I did not want to get sea sick again.
Here is a self portrait of myself while I was on my morning watch; Doug and Ray were getting some rest from their night watches.

In the afternoon the water became very calm. We were out in the Atlantic with nothing in sight just motoring along. It is weird how flat the ocean can be at times. Here is a photo:


We motored right passed this sea turtle:


We were motor sailing our way along.


Here is Ray. He has a ton of sailing experience and delivers yachts for a living.


Here I am:


While Ray and I were scanning the horizon, we spotted something way out in the distance. Ray turned on the radar and we determined its distance from us and its heading. It was some kind of boat and had a heading directly for us. Now, we are out in the ocean, probably 20-30 miles off shore and there is nothing in site except for this boat heading for us. I monitored the radar and noticed they would change their heading off course for a few minutes, and then turn back towards us. They did this several times. It sounds silly to think of pirates out there, but that did come to mind. They were getting closer and I used my camera's 12x optical lens and snapped this photo:


As you can see, they are headed right towards us. We kept an eye on them every few minutes and eventually they did take a course way behind us and apparently all they were doing was fishing. It is scary to think though what could happen way out there by yourself.

Later in the afternoon, clouds were beginning to roll in:


I do not have anymore photos from today, but we had quite a night. When we saw the clouds we tuned into the weather station and they had a storm warning with 50-60 knot winds and golf ball size hail. I looked up on the charts where this storm was located in reference to us and luckily it was to our north. Once on my watch from 8pm-12am we were hitting some very choppy seas. The boat was going up and down smashing through the waves with water splashing over the deck and dodger. I had my Bonine earlier in the day and feeling great. In fact, I thought it was fun as we were making our way through the rough seas. Soon the autopilot was having a hard time keeping us on course because of the waves. It was over correcting itself and getting off the course track. I woke Doug up and he adjusted our course slightly so we were not taking the waves head on as much. Ray came up at midnight to take his watch and let me get some rest.