A beautiful sunny day greeted us as we passed within 6 miles of the infamous diamond shoals horn marker off Cape Hatteras. A blue sky met the bluer ocean. We watched radar blips transform themselves into cloud topped sailboats and wall-like container ships. My call to home on the sat-phone captured only my own voice of on the answering machine. I will try later. We are traveling far enough from the shore that our cell phones do not work. In many ways this is a very easy job with little to do except for the watches every six hours. The most difficult aspect of watch duty is staying attentive to the situation late at night with no one else around. We are not allowed to read and will be chewed out if another boat gets within five miles without waking the captain. This is appropriate as large ships come up very fast.
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