What are the best sights seen from your cockpit ?

alant said:
Laying at anchor at about midnight in Majorca, about 300 metres offshore, we were astonished by the arrival onboard (via sugar scoop) of a topless drunken/drugged Finn female, looking for her boyfriend. Clad only in a pair of wet knickers, looking very Valkerian as she clambered onboard.

Being aware of another yacht with a Finnish flag someway ahead of us, my friend the owner, rolled her into our dinghy & took her to that boat. Needless to say, they were as suprised as we were, she being a stranger to them as well!
Click to expand...

Well, I think you've probably aced everybody with that one. :)

What happened next??
 
Last edited:
Pye_End said:
Apologies if I lower the tone.

It was morning and I was having my breakfast in the cockpit whilst on a mooring.

The boat just up from me was I think Dutch, with 3 on board - 2 blokes and a girl. All I would guess early 20's.

Anyway, the girl decided that a bath was in order, and proceeded to strip completely in the cockpit Standing there she washed everything using a flannel and a bucket. Absolutely no modesty in trying to hide herself.

Unforgetable.
Click to expand...

thumb_thisthreadisworthlesswithoutp.gif


:D
 
Passing the outer breakwater and feeling (seeing) the change from harbour to deep sea.
The dawn between Sardinia and France among a pod of whales (crew had got me up because earlier he had heard 'surf'). Land fall on the spot after 5 days of DR. (not a best sight, more a miracle). Often sighted Dolphins off Trafalgar.
A
 
alant said:
Laying at anchor at about midnight in Majorca, about 300 metres offshore, we were astonished by the arrival onboard (via sugar scoop) of a topless drunken/drugged Finn female, looking for her boyfriend. Clad only in a pair of wet knickers, looking very Valkerian as she clambered onboard.

Being aware of another yacht with a Finnish flag someway ahead of us, my friend the owner, rolled her into our dinghy & took her to that boat. Needless to say, they were as suprised as we were, she being a stranger to them as well!
Click to expand...

Heh heh, don't you just love those Finnish girls :) :)
They'll match you pint-for-pint too...
 
Watching ICAP Leopard looming out of the darkness as we rounded the Lizard on our way to the Fastnet as she was on her way back.

Seeing shark fins in the distance just off Eddystone Lighthouse and then looking down at the biggest shark I've ever seen looking back at us from along side the boat. It must have been 20ft. My first thought was "No! Great Whites in the UK?" But it was a basking shark. That said I wasn't happy about being "rail bait" and hanging my legs over the side for the rest of that race.

Dolphins diving under the boat and jumping clear of the water on the other side.

Phosphorescent algae is always magical.

Oh and the one "sight" I didn't see. The Fastnet Lighthouse! After 3 days and all the build up to my first Fastnet, the damn thing was covered in fog! :confused:

Still waiting to see a Finnish mermaid :)
 
The '99 solar eclipse, already mentioned, but at St Valery en Caux

The skyline at Gdansk in the sunset

Moonrise

Any boat astern at the finishing-line
 
.
Too many to list, but landfalls are always good.

Sunrise over Gran Canaria after a rough night passage from Tenerife was definitely one of them:

sunrisegc.jpg


And another sunrise - this time over Galicia after an eight-day passage from the Azores to Spain:

iberiansunrise.jpg


- W
 
Last edited:
I remember racing on the Iselmeer in Holland in the middle of a thunder storm and seeing lightening hit the mast of one of our competitors! We beat him but he was home long before the end of the race!!
 
The Unbeatable Sight

Anchored in Matlida Bay, Perth (the Australian one), watching my wife-to-be coming up the companionway steps of "Walk on the Wildside". She looked so beautiful, wearing a flowing lacy short reddish/brown dress, bare feet and a huge smile.

Five minutes later, we married in the cockpit in front of all our family and friends.
 
(1) Sailing down the west side of Grenada having just finished a very successful charter. large tip in an envelope in the chart table, cruising chute up, autopilot on, gin and tonics in hand, sitting on the bow, legs over the side watching the sunset whilst dolphins played under the bow.

(2) Seeing the ship that was to eventually rescue me, 900 miles west of The Azores having been dismasted and drifting around for 8 days. ( The same boat that I did the ARC 1988 on mentioned on that thread !! )

Chris
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top