Time is a very strange thing

[cagey]

Anyone else experience this.
Land time
First day of trip you are thinking this is taking so long I want to be there now
Sea time
Second day onwards I'll get there whenever

 

[Uricanejack]

yes.
I think it depends on your point of view at the time.
And when you have to be back.

For me I get there when I get there and enjoy the getting. My wife complains I spend hours drifting around with no wind fiddling with sails going nowhere she wants to get there. I already am.

 

[onesea]

My wife complains I spend hours drifting around with no wind fiddling with sails going nowhere she wants to get there. I already am.

If SWMBO complains about going slow I say I will put the engine on, she says its OK. She hates the engine, something to to with the first time she suggested it I knew we where more comfortable under sail. She now equates sailing with nice passages motoring with not nice ones

 

[wooslehunter]

Absolutely.

1st day of a few days on board I do lots. Once it's all done, I wonder what to do. Then after a few hours, I wonder where the time has gone. Then the next day out I'm chilled & don't need to think of things to do.

 

[sarabande]

you're right. We deal differently with time when afloat, especially on long trips. Something to do with the mind adjusting to the rhythm of night and day, ebb and flow, high and low tide, and not the tyranny of the clock ?

 

[oldbilbo]

Hence the expression - "Is it beer o'clock yet?"