Karen Sullivan and her partner Jim Heumann left Port Townsend in July in their Dana 24, SOCKDOLAGER, and are enroute to Mexico and beyond, in the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Their blog, Karen and Jim’s Excellent Adventure, is at: karenandjimsexcellentadventure.blogspot.com/
There’s no two ways about it: being out at sea changes me.
It’s hard to write about this without streaking off on a tangent of froth.
To an artist, the sea is a moody canvas of light, texture, color and motion to capture, but to a sailor, it’s more than that. The surface of the sea is a living membrane between two worlds.
Both have oxygen and carbon, light and darkness, calm and tempest. Both worlds move fluidly, even if the creatures that move within them at times seem clumsy.
Offshore, the boundary between sea and sky is delineated by density, gravity, a 360-degree horizon, and by the form that water takes—mostly vapor in one, mostly liquid in the other.