As we were cruising from New York to Cape Cod, about 3 miles offshore, we observed something fairly large in the water, around Fire Island.

All the people on-board of our boat noticed and heard splashes. It was a whale, what a fun it was, for us to see how she was playing around and waving to us, as she was coming closer and closer to the boat, we realize the size of this whale, she was almost the same size of our boat, perhaps a bit smaller because we did not see her coming out the water fully.

As she came closer to the boat, we started thinking, what she will do next, she went right under our boat. What an experience that was!

Seven years of my sailing experience and five people on-board, we never saw and felt anything like it.