Learning to Differentiate through hull groundings but found investigate if something sounds wrong.
Onboard Totem, we continue to no answers, until we asked a local If you’re preparing to cruise, consider
work on listening skills for ourselves fellow boater. That mysterious sound setting up scenarios for yourself to get
and our children Niall (age 9), Mairen was nothing more than the thousands familiar with certain sounds consistent
(6) and Siobhan (4). It’s a way they can of brine shrimp around us! Now, we with normal operations and how they
offer very material assistance on board, just smile when Totem sounds like it’s change when they aren’t functioning
and have very real responsibilities. floating in a big bowl of Rice Krispies. quite properly. Most of all enjoy the
We recently visited Isla Isabella, a tiny Listen to your boat! It’s an easy skill experience! Even when your boat is not
volcanic island and Mexican national to acquire and one of real importance. trying to tell you something is wrong,
wildlife preserve 85 miles south of Get time on your vessel where you sounds can mark indelible experiences
Mazatlan. It’s not a place to visit in can quiet yourself and be in tune with of all kinds and open the senses to the
anything but settled weather and the the sounds around you. Be familiar wonders around you.
two anchorages are tricky. One has a with those sounds that are part of the
reputation as a graveyard for ground normal operation of your boat and 48° N
tackle, the other is a sliver between
a reef, two rock pinnacles, and deep
water. We choose the sliver. Over the
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good sense of how Totem was lying from
the sound that carried up the anchor
chain. The hellish scraping sound of
chain on rock signaled a westerly set
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2 AM, Jamie was transfixed by the
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songs of Humpback whales. Not
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audible from deck, they could be
heard clearly through the hull; it was
nothing short of pure magic. Of course,
experiencing the environment isn’t
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