Time Travelers

Our modern lives are ruled by time. Our lives evolve around clocks, calendars, and the appointments of life. We move forward through the continued sequence of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. What if that is removed? What if time is only measured by the sunrise and the sunset? It loses meaning and importance. Such is time at sea …

Queen’s Dream has been at sea for 31 days (4,000+ miles). A known fact by examining the detailed written logs sourced by our modern devices on board. Then, the simple math of what day it is and what day the passage began. We measured time – we moved forward. The location tracker shows a thin line slowly creeping across the blue graphic of the Atlantic Ocean. However, the daily life on board QD is measured only by the timing of crew shift changes (watches). Time has lost meaning (and importance). The steady, unending cadence of moving the boat forward (in the right direction) is the driving focus every minute of the day. The sun comes up, the sun goes down, the night sky fills with stars. The only changing visible variable is the moon as it morphs through all its phases and the subtle night by night change of the position of the bright planets.

The QD crew blinks and it is another day, we blink again, and it is another week, blink – another month on the calendar. We are time travelers … moving forward towards an uncertain date. Unlike some of the nautical explorers of old, at least we move towards a known destination. Once the passage is complete, time will become particularly important again. Until then, we treasure the absence of time ruling our lives. Gaze into the never-ending blue water and breathe deep into an experience very few will ever have. How do you measure that?