Author: Justin

The last 24 hours have been interesting. Good, but interesting. Actually, nothing special has happened. No issues. We’ve been focussed more on sailing fast and fast it has been. We started doing some calculations yesterday and realized we had a chance of finishing before nightfall tomorrow. We also did some math and realized we still

The last 24 hours have been so nice. Bright blue sky, sunshine, white puffy clouds, beautiful blue water, organized swells, and mostly 15-20 knots. We’ve been able to fly the A2 spinnaker and for the most part we’ve been moving well, except the early morning yesterday when we were parked behind a squall, then early

Our position in the daily report today is wrong. The longitude should be 14459, about 12 miles west of what showed up on the report. The breeze has come down. Happy.

The last 24 hours have been an experience I hope to never repeat. Just unbelievably challenging and yet we are still trucking. This mornings daily position report that we normally receive at 11am hasn’t come in yet as of 12:45pm. Not sure why, but it is sure missed we tried really, really hard overnight and

Ha, whoever hoped for 20-30 knots for us please stop! We have plenty of breeze now, thank you very much. Haven’t seen less than 20 knots for about 27 hours. The thing is Shearwater doesn’t really go any faster above 20 knots, but the loads get higher, the waves get bigger and it just gets

The last 24 hours went from fun, to exciting, to white knuckle. The night went really well, without any issues. The autopilot did a fine job of driving and we alternated trimming the kite. The seas remained fairly low, but building. This morning, though, we started getting more breeze in 20-25 knot range and the

Today has been so much fun I had to write about it. Early this morning we were bombing along with the #2 sheeted to rail for the first time, actually doing that windy reach thing the “Pacific Cup brochure” talks about, then we switched to the gennaker and staysail and as the breeze built to