The sun will be South of you, when in the Northern hemisphere, your latitude is greater than the suns declination. If you are on the equator and the sun is on the Tropic of Cancer the sun will be to the North.
I have crossed the North Pacific and never saw the sun the entire crossing on numerous crossings. We dead reckoned all the way across. Later we got Sat Nav and then GPS but we still couldn't always see the sun.
Lower latitudes we generally could always get the sun.
My daughter lived in Syracuse, NY for awhile...they don't see the sun up there too often in winter! 'Course, I don't suppose you really need celestial nav on Lake Ontario, probably DR works well enough.
Thanks for your input. I do a fair amount of sailing too, but coastal, although that includes extended Bahamas cruises from FL. But you don't need celestial for that, the distances are small enought that dead reckoning works very well, though nowadays we've got GPS. I still do the DR plot anyway, nice to have a "second opinion."
I'm curious about your N Pacific crossings and type of boat, etc.?
I'm definitely not the expert navigator, but have figured out the sun is to the south, and travels between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn during June 21 and December 21, and ought to be due south at local noon for those north of it, I believe. Still, all input is welcome, since my piloting skills, while I like to think I understand them, are fairly rudimentary by many people's standards.