Category: Underway

Getting closer to the start!

July 4, 2022

We’re doing some technical checks with our Iridium Go! and SailDocs – hopefully this update comes through! We’ve had a pretty chill day working through some of the last projects on our list and spending a lot of time watching the weather and the routing. It’s pretty dynamic at the moment, so we may be

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B 1-2 (Leg 1) – Day 3

June 5, 2017

(240 miles to go) Howdy!  Yesterday evening and last night were really nice.  A little more wind than earlier Sunday, close reaching and flat water.  Makes it easy to move about the boat and tidy up.  I’ve gone from jib top, to A0, to jib top, to new #3.  Almost close hauled now aiming straight

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B 1-2 (Leg 1) – Day 2 extra edition

June 4, 2017

(303 miles to go) I‘m hiding on the beanbag, the waves are right down and the breeze is 5-10, with the jib top close reaching, so a good time to send an update.  Mostly a restful day.  Just a few sail changes as I went from jib top to A2 to A0 to A2 to

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B 1-2 (Leg 1) – Day 2

June 4, 2017

(340 miles to go) Another bright sunny day.  I can hear Jason (Concussion), although it sounds like he and Solarus aren’t very close, but are close each other.   A bit of everything.  Too much wind.  Too little wind.  Too big waves.  Super flat water.  Easy sailing, hard sailing.  I flew the kite from Friday

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B 1-2 (Leg 1) – Day 1

June 3, 2017

(507 miles to go) Good morning! Pretty good stuff out here so far.  It was nice getting out of the Bay and cracking off a little.  The cold front arrived earlier than expected, which was great because I was able to shift to the jib top and then the A5/A0.  As the front passed I

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Pacific Cup Day 13 Recap – Curses and Mai-Tai’s

July 21, 2014

The past twelve hours have probably been the most trying for us this entire race – we’ve had exceptionally poor luck trying to get a kite up to get the boat moving fast. Hindsight 20/20, we should have just left the jib up as we did late last night and flew it into the morning,

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Pacific Cup Day 12 Recap – Driver’s Ed

July 20, 2014

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

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Pacific Cup Day 11 – Big Blue Ocean

July 19, 2014

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

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Pacific Cup Day 10 Recap – Moonwalking and Squalls

July 18, 2014

We’re slowly regaining some of the much needed rest that we’ve been missing the past few days, which helps moods – the start of last night was nearly perfect, but we’ve decided that the breeze turns on a turbo switch at happy hour, and then in the wee hours of the morning. The turbo switch

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Pacific Cup Day 9 – Position Correction

July 17, 2014

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.

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