I come from strong sailing stock; my grandfather built yachts for the family in the front yard and my father sailed short-handed halfway around the world. Follow my adventures across the Atlantic and around the world in 2012.
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Hapiness in a snack!
April 27th, 2012 | Published in Global Ocean Race
We have reclaimed our 300 mile lead after 24 hours with solid breeze and either the Code 3 or little Code 5 reaching gennaker up. Last night was spectacular with sustained periods at 18kts and a whole sched where our slowest speed was 11kts. It was extremely wet on deck with a constant deluge of [...]
Change as good as a holiday
April 23rd, 2012 | Published in Global Ocean Race
News of the day, there’s still enough weed about to make us sail as if walking through a mine field. Relatively frequently we need to sock the spinnaker and round up into the wind to sail big clumps of it off the keel and the rudders. We’ve polished this maneuver so we can get back [...]
Mechanics
April 20th, 2012 | Published in Global Ocean Race
We finally have a fully functioning boat again! Even as we have been averaging 11-12 knots and blasting over the ocean with our small reaching gennaker our mind has been on other things. First, after having been totally reliant on the engine to charge while we worked on a problem with our Hydrogenerator, we then [...]
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