Month: July 2012

Yesterday afternoon was some pretty amazing sailing.  We reached along all day with the gennaker, generally over 8 knots (new top speed of 9.95 kts – and of course I’ll let you know if we break that in the future!)  Last night the wind eased off, we’ve gone back to the genoa for some close

The past 24 hours have been generally good – we’re sailing fast (7.8 knots at the moment on a broad reach), and we’ve made 149 miles in the last day.  We had our first company in a day as well, as a large US Coast Guard cutter just went past us. Last night, our evening settled in

Howdy from somewhere north of Bermuda. Today has brought the arrival of the Gulfstream current and a number of changes come along with it. The best part is we have had a 2-2.5 knot push all morning and that combined with a 15 knot sw’ly is giving us a speed over ground consistently over 10 knots!  For

We transited the C&D canal in the evening and made it to the Delaware Bay’s narrow, busy shipping lanes at dark.  Our new AIS receiver showed locations, speeds, directions and destinations of the shipping traffic, which was great. We also had favorable current for most of our time in the bay, which meant that when

> We managed to cross the last few things off the list and pulled away from the dock, relieved to be on our way. The weather has been Texas-hot, with a bit more humidity and many more mosquitoes. We only had a dozen or so super challenges, ranging from a minor crisis trying to chase