Tuesday Mar 24,09
Had a great night watch.
I was first helm and we were trying to sail as close to NxW as we could get. We had all sails set and she
was steering really well so even though it was a bit tricky to keep from swinging to far into the wind it
wasn’t too bad.
About halfway through my trick, around 4:30 or so I caught sight of a bright light to the NE and when I
glanced over to see what it was I saw what looked like two objects coming down like very bright and slow
meteors towards the East. There was a flash and they vanished. Later as dawn began to break there
appeared to be a band of very brightly lit clouds in the NE about where the flash was. These clouds were
high enough that they were in sunlight before even the cirrus clouds over us were. As the light grew these
clouds spread out into an ellipse almost like a giant smoke ring hanging just over the horizon. They were
no longer visible by the time the Sun came up. I think the clouds were the result of an explosion of
something at very high altitude. Pretty cool!
We took in all square sail and fired up the engine around 6:30 and are currently motorsailing North.
More later…
Just got off my afternoon watch and we are still motoring North. The winds are light, force 3, from the
North. The sky has been cloudy all day and was looking fairly grim at sunset but as we were coming off
watch there were a few stars visible so maybe nothing will come of it.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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