Month: July 2022

Everyone – just a quick note that we’ll send an update tomorrow on the final details of our race. It was a great one for us, and we left it all on the course. In the end, we got nipped at the line, so to speak, but that is sailboat racing! We are having a

We are a bit tired. The forecast tonight looks for building breeze to 25 knots, so we decided to take down the A3 that essentially had us holding the reins for dear life these past 3 days. We have the Code Zero up, and It.Is.Awesome. We may not lose a finger after all! In all

We are counting down the miles like no one’s business, but we’re having to work pretty hard for them. Breeze is 18-20 knots in boisterous seas, but we’re learning new modes on the boat. Of course, the big surfs are our favorite. It’s getting so commonplace to do these monsterous surfs that roar for the

Hi everyone – We’re feeling like we can almost smell the finish – as I write this, we are about to turn over 600 miles to go. The miles are going much quicker now, thanks to the much steadier trade winds that we’re in now (15-20 knots) and a course that we’re sailing as close

Some change is in the air. Last night we followed along the left side of a squall for a good hour in mid-teens wind (5 knots more than the base), headed right towards Hawaii. A friendly squall? This afternoon we are snaking between squalls trying to take advantage of the additional wind without getting too

We’re somewhere out in the Pacific, approximately 1,000 miles from the closest land. That milestone has always been a little unsettling to me. In 2016, where the race was brutally exhausting, it was such a relief to see our GPS start the countdown at 1,000 miles, then 999 miles, where we felt like we were

Today was pretty straightforward. We sailed west as fast as we could in slowly lowering wind speeds. Last night saw some great breeze and great boat speeds. We did 228nm between 3pm-3pm, which is fantastic for us and faster than all the Monday/Tuesday starters + all but one of the Thursday starters. We also had

We’ve spent today dodging squalls and trying hard for some good mileage to outrun the light air that is forecast to fill behind us. Breeze has been good for us – 15-18 knots, so we’ve had some fast conditions for Raku. We’re switching off helming more frequently, and the breeze is expected to lighten this

It’s been a busy day on Raku…early this morning we held a team meeting at 0130 to discuss weather and whether we should jibe. Then, we ran into another something that was really vibrating at the keel, so we took the kite down, and backed down…and successfully removed ourselves from a 6 foot piece of