Adventures sailing around the world
Yesterday afternoon, we tacked down south again, hoping to make some progress to the equator. It didn’t look good, our heading was dead south, and we need to keep moving east to make our destination. I took control from the … Read More »
We’re finally half way to our destination. Of our 9 days at sea, only one has been favorable, with the rest of them containing choppy big-wave waters with winds typically in the 20s providing a violent and noisy ride. Our … Read More »
We’ve constantly been beating upwind, since we left Hawaii, but progress east has been slow. Until today. Finally, we’re getting close to the equator. The north equatorial current was pushing us west, combined with waves and wind also pushing us … Read More »
On the ocean, one day bleeds into the next and you quickly loose track of what day it is. If it wasn’t for our iPad I would have no clue. Our Saturday hopes of having a movie night literally got … Read More »
If you read my post on my trip from San Francisco to Hawaii back in 2015, you might have read about the rod kicker. The horrors of waking up to a breakage on your mast only to realize that the … Read More »