The narration about giving up to enter Kiritimati was my way to deal with my frustration of having to give up. I sailed about 700 NM to visit Kiritimati and was forced to give up just 30 NM front of the “entrance door”.

Today, towards the end of my second watch, I’m sitting in the cockpit looking over the sea with its still 2 m waves and a swell difficult to recognize. However watching for a while, the swell can recognized as of about 100 m wavelength and hight of 2 – 3 m. TWS is still between some 13 – 20 KN.

Just now I saw again one of my favorite waves; one with a “glassy” top. They appear, when waves from 2 sufficiently different directions meet each other and form a pyramid shaped wave. Its top then looks “glassy” because it becomes translucent. It’s color is based on darker green and becomes brighter with increasing translucenticy. It is created in a fraction of a second and disappears for every on another fraction of a second.

I’m also enjoying the sunlight warming me up. Why is warming up needed? We just crossed the equator again some 25 NM back. I was surprised myself when I sat inside, close to the open door and felt I need my comfortable cotton sweater I got once in one of my frequent Lufthansa flights between Japan and Europe. The logged lowest temperature last night was 25 degC. I feel I’m changing, because I need sweater at 25 degC. Am I getting closer to my wife in respect to comfortable temperatures? For her everything below 30 degC is cold!

In between writing these paragraphs I am always looking at the waves and enjoy MaRe’s dancing with the waves. When a wave comes from behind with an angle towards MaRe’s direction, she swings her bums around towards the waves to let the waves going through beneath her bums.

An endless game and I’ll watch it a bit more while uploading this narration and write an email about an idea I got while watching these inspiring waves.