Month: July 2014

Ti leaves to see us to Hawaii

July 8, 2014

We attached the Ti leaves to the bow today – we received them in our skipper’s bag and were told that they are from Hawaii, and they’ll find their way home.  It’s a nice thought. I did some more looking since I was interested in finding out more about the plant – they’re not technically

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Sat Phone Test Post

July 7, 2014

Just checking one more time to make sure our Sat Phone is working to post to our blog.

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Cookies and competition (oh wow)

July 7, 2014

Earlier today, we received a very special delivery. Wayne and Linda on the Nordic Tug “Buoy Toy” were friendly neighbors to us out on E-dock here at Richmond Yacht Club for the past 2 months. We were the lucky recipients of the most amazing gift from them…24 homemade chocolate chip and walnut cookies. The squeeze

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Follow us during the race!

July 7, 2014

We are just a little over 24 hours from our start at 12:10pm (Pacific time) on Tuesday. A few boats started yesterday. Sixteen boats start today, eighteen start on Tuesday, and then the fastest crewed boats start Thursday and Friday.  There will be 55 boats in all.  We will try to make daily blog updates to svshearwater.com,

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A last minute project – SOS rudder install

July 6, 2014

We’ve been busy these past few days here at the Richmond Yacht Club, working on list items and meeting other sailors.  Last week, Justin arrived ahead of me and started working on the mounting brackets for the Scanmar SOS rudder that we had bought used from a sailing friend he knew online.  Although we were originally

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