The back of the boat. Our dingy raised on the davits. The blue rectangle tied to the top of the davits contains the gangplank. To the left is a white box containing our Avon survival raft - basically a tough self-inflating dome tent that will fit 6 and contains everything we might need if the boat goes down.

It is 12:00 noon. I will be spending almost 2 weeks in the sun with many days wearing only a pair of shorts all day. So I worry about getting too much sun too fast. I have on my wide brim straw hat, and it is clipped by a shoestring to my pants pocket. Quite a nifty invention of mine I think.
So, right now I am sitting on the far back of the boat, on the teak deck, under the shadow cast by the dingy on davits. It's quite a comfortable little hideaway. Shady, and I sit down next to the sea as it churns a trail off the back underside of the boat.
The cockpit also offers shade, but it is enclosed from the wind - a little too still for me today. Here on the back of the boat I have the wind flowing across me, the shade, and the churning gurgle of the sea as it roils by, just a couple of feet under my left elbow.