Category Archives: passages

Another uneventful day is another good day. Nothing broken, solid breeze and sunny weather is what we want. The best I could hope for is a series of deathly dull today we sailed fast and nothing happened blog posts broken up by reports of the occasional tasty fish caught for Read On..

Well, we’re off. At just before 1:00 p.m. local time in the Galpagos we pulled the anchor and set out for the Marquesas. If the conditions will stay like this for the next 18-20 days it will be a fast, comfortable passage. About 15 knots of breeze on a beam Read On..

Ceremonies for crossing the equator go back as long as people have been crossing the ocean. The “Shellbacks” – those that have sailed across the equator – take the time to initiate the “Pollywogs” with rites that are generally messy, wet, humiliating and occasionally painful. Typically the ceremony involves a Read On..

After another uneventful night of light air upwind sailing our ETA is starting to look a little more firm. Right now we are about 150 nautical miles from the harbor we will be clearing in to. One of three things will happen – the wind will pick up, the wind Read On..

Not 20 degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius. Not at twenty degrees of Latitude or Longitude though there is a potential post there. I am talking about Twenty Degrees of heeling. Specifically life on board when you are sailing upwind for several days in a row and your life is tipped a Read On..

Well I for one am very happy I filed an extension before we left, seeing as how I don’t think I can e-file with TurboTax via Single Sideband. Last night we had more poor wind with shifts to SSW that caused us to sail off more to the North than Read On..

Our visions, well a lot of peoples visions, of sailing West across the Pacific is one of following the Trade Winds, gentle off the wind sailing for days on end. Sowhy are we sailing upwind? Last night the wind shifted more South, and more West. Right now it is blowing Read On..

Day three was another clear day with variable breeze. We have managed to sail all day but some times it hasn’t been as fast as we like. Right now at 2000 local time (0100 UTC or “zulu”) we have 8-10 knots of wind which is variable and light. Its dark Read On..

Every now and then when on a passage you have a moment, when everything clicks and you think yeah, I could keep on doing this for a while. Last night I was awakened about half an hour before my watch to help bring the sails in. The wind had died Read On..