Month: July 2022

EOD 4 – Smooth sailing

Today has been really pleasant so far. We’ve had the A2.5 up all day, good breeze, not too much, not too little (8-12 mostly). It was warm, but not too warm, sunny at times, but more clouds. The waves are still incredibly small, with almost no swell. Presumably, we’ll start to see some bigger swells

EOD 3 – Planes, but no planing (yet)!

Things are going well onboard Raku. We are into our offshore routines now – watch schedules have been ~2.5 hours off, and for the most part, we’re bunking in the quarterberth or in the beanbag. Earplugs do help a lot (we have a whistle on deck if the other person is really needed), and I

EOD 2 – Little Bit of Everything

Aloha! Today started out interesting. During the night we were beating slowly, due south, near Limitless when suddenly our speed slowed way down in 8 knots of wind. We figured we must have wrapped something on the keel. Fishing gear? Plastic? Who knows? It was pitch black, so no way to see anything. Long story

EOD 1 – Sunfish & Sun

It’s been a good day – we had a good start in nice breeze out through the gate. It’s been light since, but we’re doing our best to connect the dots. We did hit our first (and hopefully only) thing about an hour ago. We think it was a sunfish because we saw one just

Start and tracking info!

Our start is at 10:50am this morning. You can follow the tracker at https://yb.tl/paccup2022. Weather models look marginally better for today and tomorrow! Let’s get this started!

It’s getting real now – Ti leaves are on!

We’ve spent the weekend finishing up last minute projects, looking at weather, attending the skipper’s meeting and bon voyage party, looking at weather, topping off our water, finishing up shopping, and looking at the weather. We’re looking at the weather a lot right now – it is going to be a bit tricky to get

Getting closer to the start!

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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