{"id":453,"date":"2013-10-28T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2014-06-22T07:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:05:36","slug":"night-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Night Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When telling friends about our trip, we often were asked, \u201cWhat happens at night?\u00a0 Do you anchor wherever you are?\u201d\u00a0 The answer is, unfortunately, no.\u00a0 We can\u2019t anchor if the ocean floor is too deep and we are on a long passage.\u00a0 Someone always needs to be on watch.\u00a0 Truth be told, night watch is not my favorite part of sailing because, well, it\u2019s hard to stay awake.\u00a0 And at this point, it\u2019s still pretty cold at night, which makes it even more unappealing.\u00a0 Moreover, night watch anywhere near shipping lanes can be very stressful.\u00a0 If the weather is rough, it is much scarier at night. If you\u2019re not freezing to death or stressing out, then boredom can set in, which leads to sleepiness.<\/p>\n<p>I once read a sailing blog post of a woman who said she had begun to really like night watch.\u00a0 To her credit, there are some points during night watch that can be really magical.\u00a0 Watching a full moon set a glistening path across the ocean.\u00a0 Watching Orion rotate above you as the hours pass and contemplating the earth\u2019s rotation.\u00a0 Looking up at the unfathomable number of stars above you.\u00a0 Seeing the bioluminescence splash away from the hull as the boat carves through the swells.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent night watch (2 in a row) from Ensenada to Turtle Bay there was very little boat traffic \u2013 one of the perks of being more offshore.\u00a0 It was partly cloudy but with a nearly full moon, which would burst through the clouds once in a while, shining a spotlight on the boat.\u00a0 \u00a0So far, the longest passage we\u2019ve had is two nights in a row, the rest have been overnighters. \u00a0I think (I should say I <i>hope<\/i>) that during longer runs we\u2019ll get into more of a rhythm where night watches aren\u2019t a test of endurance.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let you all know what happens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-458 alignleft\" title=\"Sunrise while approaching Magdalena Bay\" alt=\"10651753924_0831cab9ca_c\" src=\"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10651753924_0831cab9ca_c-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10651753924_0831cab9ca_c-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10651753924_0831cab9ca_c.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10383695946_8e322218ba_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-455\" alt=\"10383695946_8e322218ba_c\" src=\"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10383695946_8e322218ba_c-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10383695946_8e322218ba_c-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/easethemain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/10383695946_8e322218ba_c.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php\/buy-motilium-professional\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When telling friends about our trip, we often were asked, \u201cWhat happens at night?\u00a0 Do you anchor wherever you are?\u201d\u00a0 The answer is, unfortunately, no.\u00a0 We can\u2019t anchor if the ocean floor is too deep and we are on a long passage.\u00a0 Someone always needs to be on watch.\u00a0 Truth be told, night watch is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}