13.31.64N - 047∞47.49W --> 13∞51.98N - 050∞49.35W
I'm on a solo watch at 5 o' clock (the 'cock watch').
I gaze up to the sky, stars and constellations patterns. On these days Jupiter rises two or three hours before the sun and I like to imagine that the sun is a bit lazy and it needs to be pulled outside the curtain of the dark by the big Jupiter.
Around 6 o'clock it starts to become light. My sight is at the brightest point in the East, behind us, just under Jupiter ... I'm waiting for the earth to rotate a few more degrees to show the sun; I'm waiting for the first rays of direct sunlight, these you can feel the warmth on your skin (and the vitamin D, as they say in northern Europe, (oops, Great Britain).
And there it is, 'Here comes the sun'...
But now I can't see it anymore, then I can see it, then no, then yes. But it is not cloudy...
What's happening? Big waves.
Seeing the horizon means seeing the waves, those big waves that make the boat float in some effervescent liquid mountain. In the valley between two of these liquid mountains, you just see water; and on top of the mountain you see, not the standard flat horizon, but a moving hilly horizon.
So it's a fact, with three or four metres waves you need some more time to see the entire sun: there is not a precise moment, but a sequence of different sunrises. Today I've seen dozens of sunrises.
Atlantic crossing. Just add water ... under your hull!
6 Sunrise