Day: July 21, 2016

Pacific Cup Day 9 – Life on Board and Midnight Company

We are in the tradewinds for sure – lots of cumulus, and perhaps more telling, the cabin smells like wet clothes and people needing showers, mixed in with warm humidity. Last night, we saw our first racing sailboat – saw their port running lights and they seemed to be a pretty big boat, so I

Pacific Cup Day 8 – Wind

Did anyone imagine it could be this windy for this long on the way to Hawaii. Since leaving San Francisco we have not seen less than 10 knots of wind and have only seen less than 15 for maybe 30 minutes in total. Today has been the windiest so far. More like 20-30. Our experiments