Bottom on edge of side-deck. Head and shoulders pivoting at waist outwards from an upright position through arc of 30 degrees. Top of mast moving through 10 degree arc in synchronisation and leech of sail flicking to windward on each bounce. Each time about two feet of sheet was trimmed in with about a one-second interval between pumps. Here he goes again - in out in out in out.
Waves are about two feet high and five feet between crests from the north.
Wind is north at 12 - 15 knots. Surfing conditions did exist. Wind is from the north at 5 knots and the sea is calm. The whaler driver, Charlie, agrees that he has seen the same activity. The boat was not altering course, nor does the skipper look as though he is trying to alter course or needs to alter course.