Here comes the sun

[TheDragon]

Can’t find a thread for sunrise pics, and this morning’s was so good I have to share. Came after a long hard night getting hammered by a huge squall, then becalmed. Woke at first light and watched this develop behind me over Borabora (right side), as I hove-to near Maupiti.

What have you got?

 

[accnick]

Can’t find a thread for sunrise pics, and this morning’s was so good I have to share. Came after a long hard night getting hammered by a huge squall, then becalmed. Woke at first light and watched this develop behind me over Borabora (right side), as I hove-to near Maupiti.

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Although this isn’t a landfall photo , it brought back the incredible feeling that comes over you when you get that first, sometimes ambiguous bit of land peeking above the horizon after weeks at sea.

For days or weeks, the universe has consisted of your boat and a circular patch of ever-changing, ever-changeless ocean a few miles in diameter.

Is that land, or just another cloud teasing you?

That’s the type of thing that keeps you sailing offshore.

 

[Israel Hands]

Leaving Ocracoke Island NC

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Sometimes you're leaving and watching the land pass away.
Last look, Berries

 

[bgytr]

Dunn Cove sunrise, May 2022.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Sunrises here, north coast of Vancouver Island, are often of the liquid/misty variety...it’s lurking there somewhere in the E this morning

 

[Kolibri]

A couple sunrise pics and a sunrise video from our recent crossing from San Francisco to Oahu.

 

[Elegua]

Lobsterman looking for bait at 5am

 

[OSPREY]

 

[Kris Cringle]

Make your own sun for a few miliamps

 

[Bull City]

Pre-dawn is an uncivilized hour to be awake. I know this because I spent many 0400-0800 watches in the US Navy.

 

[Kenny Dumas]

Sunrise at sea is precious
Always change watches at sunrise

 

[Cisco]

Sunrise over the Andes as seen from near Rilan , Isla Chiloe, Chile.
The boats are a pair of steel Van de Stads bought in Holland for scrap value and shipped out to Chile.

 

[Israel Hands]

I brought my raincoat this morning

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

I swear the sun is rising in this pic (yesterday, crossing Georgia Strait)...unforecast, building SE’ly to the right that caught us a bit by surprise...bye bye sunrise.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Front passing over this morning - this time I can see she’s (he’s? Helios?) on the way up.

Or not? These two pics are actually only one minute apart! (The orange-y, first one below was first, then the sky colour suddenly changed.)

 

[Kris Cringle]

A fiery sun rising over Perry Creek on Vinalhaven Island, Penobscot Bay.

Despite the boat crowd, the silence up the creek was deafening at dawn. So much so that when a cormorant's webbed landing gear sliced the glassy creek next to the boat, I nearly jumped out of the cockpit.

 

[Prairie Boater]

Beautiful shot, especially since you included a Nonsuch!

 

[accnick]

A fiery sun rising over Perry Creek on Vinalhaven Island, Penobscot Bay.

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Despite the boat crowd, the silence up the creek was deafening at dawn. So much so that when a cormorant's webbed landing gear sliced the glassy creek next to the boat, I nearly jumped out of the cockpit.

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I see my Bimini and flying bridge in the distance just to left of the rising sun. It was indeed a beautiful morning, followed by a lovely powerboat day. You might as well have left the vertical awnings furled, however.

 

[Kolibri]

Early morning just south of Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay on the way to Oahu.