Atlantic crossing on a Morgan 38'

Sailing across the Atlantic ocean in January 2006.

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Atlantic crossing aboard Calypso, a Morgan 38'

Atlantic crossing 2006

Atlantic crossing

Taking a noon sighting, atlantic crossing 2006

Galley duty, atlantic crossing 2006

Fresh fish at sea with fresh salad, thanks to the green bags, atlantic crossing 2006

Galley duty, sailing across the atlantic

Fresh Mahi mahi for dinner after 10 days at sea, the sea finally layed down a little bit and we were able to fish....the night before I got hit in the head by a flying fish and decided that it was problably a good omen....it turned out to be right

Kissing the offering of the sea

Fish On!! atlantic crossing 2006

more water, atlantic crossing 2006

Sipping on coffee on morning watch. We did 4-hour watches

Dorie on watch..hey follow me I know where it is.

Cooking crepes while listening to some tunes, atlantic crossing 2006

more water

Hiding behind my lee cloth with my Avian flu comforter...during the passage, my whole bunk got wet with a wave that came crashing into the galley as someone was going out of the companion way and soaked my comforter and bunk so since this is salt water and it won't dry, the rest of the trip was a bit humid and smelly...

Atlantic crossing on a Morgan 38'

Dorie and Jenn at the airport in FLL

Beautiful Tobago

Tobago beach

Why is land still moving?

Went out fishing on a boat with bamboo outrigger and caught 2 black fin tunas

Arriving at destination...Land!! we found land!!

...and yet there are great passage and great sailing companions. Perhaps the great passages happen when each of us withdraws into the vast spaces of self, when each chooses not to interact on any but the most needful levels. We do not go to sea to achieve a “meaningful relationship” with others, but for exactly the opposite reason, to achieve relationship with self.

...find the solution you claim to seek. Push your shipmates away from you. Sleep rather than talk, read rather than relate and train yourself to see and hear nothing save the infinite delight and excitement of which self is capable. And if you do....if you can.....just watch the approval grow in the eyes of your shipmates, so that, after impolitely ignoring them for all of the time you were together, you will hear them sing your praises as a great sailing comrades. And you, in lovely and loving paradox, will think the same of them. Unlikely Passages by Reese Palley

Dolphins riding our bow

Dorie writing in her journal

Canaries- we getting on the boat