
Flying Fish is the biannual journal of the Ocean Cruising Club, an international organization of ocean sailors, based in the UK. It’s a wonderful group of people, self-described (on the OCC website) as sharing a “combination of accomplishment, experience, idealism, eccentricity, generosity and humility.”
I’ve contributed frequently to the journal since we joined the OCC and we’ve been honored to have our photographs on the covers of three issues.
This photograph is from a memorable day: the day we reached the polar pack ice in the Arctic Ocean. It was an eerily calm day, the sea glassy, with only the smallest ripples from the smallest zephyrs to ruffle the water’s surface. After weeks of gale-force wind, it felt as if the world was holding its breath. (As indeed it was: the gales began again the following day.)
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