Month: July 2016

Day 10 was rather different than the previous days.  The sun came out, the winds eased off to 15-20 and the waves turned into long Pacific Tradewind rollers.  Just like the brochure said it would be.  We put up the A4 and spent the entire day rocketing along in relatively smooth water with relatively little

We are in the tradewinds for sure – lots of cumulus, and perhaps more telling, the cabin smells like wet clothes and people needing showers, mixed in with warm humidity. Last night, we saw our first racing sailboat – saw their port running lights and they seemed to be a pretty big boat, so I

Did anyone imagine it could be this windy for this long on the way to Hawaii. Since leaving San Francisco we have not seen less than 10 knots of wind and have only seen less than 15 for maybe 30 minutes in total. Today has been the windiest so far. More like 20-30. Our experiments

It’s been all about the waves. Today we had a bit of everything. I screamed obscenities at the waves, I loved the waves. We had the A4 up in 25 knots doing steady 10-11’s with long surfs up to 15, but couldn’t fly a spinnaker in 20 knots earlier because of the waves. Spadefoot seems

It’s been a rough 24 hours. There’s more wind than we want, bigger seas than we want, and a few items at home that we wished we brought (notably, our little whisker pole for poling out headsails. We tried valiantly to keep the A4 going, and we could for a while, but it was one

I thought was going to talk about waves today, but that will have to wait. So many things happended in the last 24 hours. First, yesterday afternoon we put up the A4 spinnaker, a slightly small heavier kite that we love. It signalled the beginning of the downwind conditions for the rest of trip to

So many things have gone through my head today that I wanted to write about, but first I have to start by remembering that 2 weeks ago today we said goodbye to our beloved 14 year old puppy Jordan. Chris & I talked about that today, for the first time this trip. For those that

After our brief tour of Southern California the winds have conspired to allow us to point towards Hawaii now. We received position reports this morning and it was mostly good news. First, Mirador, the Antrim 27 in our class did start. They must have started a few hours late? Great to have them out here.