Category: General

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.

We got to the start with no issues and had a nice sail in 15-20 knots out under the Golden Gate. Our division is down to 5 boats. Once out, we dodged whales to get to the synoptic breeze on a west-southwest course. We’ve been doing 1-hour watches because helming is really physical – we