Monthly Archives: May 2014

Marquesas Arrival!

By B.J. | Published May 31, 2014

We are here in the Marquesas after 16 days, 4 hours and 35 minutes, traveling 3,008 miles in total! Arrival time 2335 UTC on 5/31/14! PLEASE, PLEASELike and Share on the Evenstar Facebook page, not everyone checks the blog every day and we can’t get to Facebook yet. Thanks! More Read On..

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Day 16 – One Day Out

By B.J. | Published May 30, 2014

As of this writing there are about 155 miles left until the anchorage in Nuka Hiva. That is less than our slowest day, and we anticipate settling in the anchorage late in the day tomorrow. Everyone is tired and ready to be there. It wasn’t a bad day but the Read On..

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Day 15 to the Marquesas – Are We There Yet?

By B.J. | Published May 29, 2014

It would be dishonest of me to suggest that this trip is not getting old. In truth with a working autopilot it would be a lot more relaxing, even fun. But hand steering has made it into a lot of work with sore muscles, not quite enough sleep all around Read On..

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Day 14 – Wind Shifts and Kites

By B.J. | Published May 28, 2014

First of all, apparently yesterday’s post was truncated right before I got to the utterly useless response I got from Furuno and my ensuing rant at their customer service. My apologies, I will repost the restor perhaps and edited with the cool clarity of time version which does not vent Read On..

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Day Thirteen – Time Changes and Customer Support

By B.J. | Published May 27, 2014

This is going to be a fairly short one. We’ve adjusted the watch schedules to reflect our passage West and I need to sort out a better time to post I’m supposed to be sleeping now! About Time Redux Well our Ship’s Time is now completely at odds with reality. Read On..

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Day Twelve – Happy Birthday Will!

By B.J. | Published May 26, 2014

Today, in the middle of the Pacific ocean miles away from friends, family, cake, ice cream and all the rest Will turns 17. Happy Birthday! We plan to celebrate it more properly when we are someplace the cake batter won’t slop out of the pan before it can set in Read On..

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Day 11 – Closing on 2,000 miles

By B.J. | Published May 25, 2014

At our last hourly check point 0200 UTC (8:00 p.m. ship’s time) we’d sailed 1,957 nautical miles. At our current pace sometime in the middle of the night tonight we will pass 2,000 miles sailed on this trip. Two thirds of the way, that’s a nice benchmark. We’ve been putting Read On..

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Fruit Roulette

By B.J. | Published May 24, 2014

The Really Cool Organic Shopping Experience Before leaving the Galapagos we visited a local organic farm to get some fresh produce. After the paltry selections we available in the little tiendas in the towns perhaps we got a little too excited about the fresh produce. We do that. The farm Read On..

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Day 10 to the Marquesa. Still steering.

By B.J. | Published May 24, 2014

Autopilot Update Well, it wasn’t fixed and now we have a whole lot of weird going on. The Mystery Drive in the old Autopilot system has been identified as a Whitlock Mamba 24V drive, so that is good and thanks to my best friend Andrew for tracking down information for Read On..

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Reports of Resurrection are a Bit Premature

By B.J. | Published May 23, 2014

The autopilot worked beautifully for about three hours, then right before dinner it coughed up an error message and stopped working. “Clutch is Overloaded” or some such nonsense. It then refused to engage in any and all calibration and configuration exercises, telling me to Check your wiring. What I am Read On..

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