When I speak with folks who aren’t familiar with sailing, I often get asked “How do you” type questions. Here are the answers to some of these: Q: Where do you stop at night? A: You don’t. You keep sailing in the dark. When conditions are benign, sailing at night is a beautiful thing. The night sky is truly awesome in the real sense of the word, not awesome like a good sandwich. You can see the Milky Way and the blackness is almost silver as you can make out clusters of millions of stars that you would never see on land due to light pollution. There is phosphorescence in the sea is stunning and the boat leaves a trail of luminescent pearls behind it. But, also the Night is Dark and Full of Terrors. When the boat is sailing fast, heeled over in high winds and bigger waves, it... Read more →