People Are Talking

But who are those people?

Dona de Mallorca and the Wanderer are currently on the last few miles of a sloppier-than-normal doublehanded Baja Bash aboard Latitude 38‘s 63-ft cat Profligate. There’s been a surprising amount  of conversation aboard — surprising because one person is usually on watch while the other is trying to catch up on sleep. 

So who is doing all the talking? Although their voices are always just a little too soft to make out what they are saying, we’ve heard family members, friends, sports  broadcasts — even animal  sounds. Especially at night. It’s the old ‘mind replacing what’s normally there’ thing.

Over the years, other sailors have reported seeing ‘crew’ who were either not there or had been long dead. But we haven’t been at sea long enough to experience any of that. How about you? Have you ever heard or seen anybody interesting on your boat during a passage? If so, email us.