The first onset of delirium due to exhaustion and sleep deprivation typical to ocean rowing is often experienced as hallucinating the sound of barking dogs. I often tried to understand what causes our brain to choose this sound in particular and I never managed to find a scientific answer but I found a poetic one: Just like mad dogs are rolling foam from their mouth, so are the waves at Beaufort 10 winds. And on this occasion while crossing the southern ocean I wrote the Seadog haiku: Beaufort 10 Rolling foam from their mouth Seadogs
As I found myself becoming a Seadog in the middle of the Drake Passage.