SAILOR NOTES 003: Do not dream. Go do.

On a southerly course, listening to the ocean reveal our souls.

We run from the sun, shortening our exposure to it each second as the course plunges our ship further into the Southern Hemisphere winter. The plotted position on the chart indicates our proximity to the Cape of Good Hope, but this is clear upon stepping onto the bridge wing, feeling the change in atmosphere overnight. There is a sudden briskness to the…