Posted By: ncik
Nice story about winter sailing on Moreton Bay - 07/10/06 01:56 AM
Went for a solo sail, with my crew on his fat moth, and it was great!!!
Arrived later than planned but luckily there was no breeze so we didn't miss out on much. Rigged and hit the water just as the 5-10 knot sea-breeze had settled.
As we were leaving the harbour I spotted a couple of dolphins following a powerboat in. That was cool until about 15 minutes later when we ended up in the middle of a couple of pods of them outside the harbour. I don't know if we were following them or they were following us but we played around with them on and off for about 2 hours. They were jumping out between and around us, swimming under us, wrestling each other. It was cool.
I decided to leave them alone when the breeze built a little and shot off on one hull upwind (not on trapeze) and about 10 mins into the run spotted a splash about 3metres off my windward bow. I then felt a bump as I pitched through a wave and could've sworn I heard a squeak, looked forward and there was a dolphin gliding along right under my leeward bow! It was matching me for speed for about 10 seconds right under the hull then shot off under my windward hull. It was awesome! I hope it didn't get too much of a headache.
Any ideas from anyone in the know whether I could've heard it squeak from above the water or was it just the boat.
Arrived later than planned but luckily there was no breeze so we didn't miss out on much. Rigged and hit the water just as the 5-10 knot sea-breeze had settled.
As we were leaving the harbour I spotted a couple of dolphins following a powerboat in. That was cool until about 15 minutes later when we ended up in the middle of a couple of pods of them outside the harbour. I don't know if we were following them or they were following us but we played around with them on and off for about 2 hours. They were jumping out between and around us, swimming under us, wrestling each other. It was cool.
I decided to leave them alone when the breeze built a little and shot off on one hull upwind (not on trapeze) and about 10 mins into the run spotted a splash about 3metres off my windward bow. I then felt a bump as I pitched through a wave and could've sworn I heard a squeak, looked forward and there was a dolphin gliding along right under my leeward bow! It was matching me for speed for about 10 seconds right under the hull then shot off under my windward hull. It was awesome! I hope it didn't get too much of a headache.
Any ideas from anyone in the know whether I could've heard it squeak from above the water or was it just the boat.