4:30 AM Current Position: South 6 degrees, 12 minutes; West 22 degrees, 33 minutes. Going 9 knots in 18 knots of wind. Finally stable after a wild night. But I should start with last night. I really couldn’t get to sleep, and Philip really needed sleep, so at 9PM, I got up and he went […]
Month: May 2009
BACK TO “NORMAL”
Time: 1:42 AM Current Position: South 4 degrees, 59 minutes, West 24 degrees, 25 minutes Well, after a series of squalls, we seem to be back to normal. The boat is on autopilot, she’s racing along at 8 – 10 knots in 20 – 25 knot winds, the seas are bumpy because of the storms, […]
SQUALLS, THEN CALM. ALMOST TO HALFWAY POINT.
Time: 2:16 AM Current position: South 4 degrees 34 minutes, West 26 degrees 41 minutes Very quiet now, ghosting along in the moonlight at 3.75 knots in 5.2 knots of wind, wind slowly building. Wasn’t quiet earlier. All day we have had 20-knot winds or higher, big swells, and lots of rain squalls. Sometimes there […]
HALFWAY HOME
Time: 1:40 PM (yes, writing to you when the sun is out! – well, overcast, but daytime, in any case) Current Position: South 4 degrees, 10 minutes, West 27 degrees, 29 minutes You are receiving this “extra” update because today is the day we will now officially consider the “halfway home” day. We have basically […]
ALBATROSS ON BOARD
Current time: 2:58 AM, GMT minus 2, I think. Current position: South 3 degrees 57 minutes, West 28 degrees 09 minutes Hi. Just started to pour again. We’ve been in the middle of squalls for days. Right now we have set our course for the next waypoint, and the autopilot is taking us there. Except […]
ALMOST TO THE EQUATOR
Current Time: 2:55 AM Current Position: South 2 degrees 43 minutes, West 29 degrees 12 minutes. Hi, Everyone. Wind is steady, although not too strong – mostly 5 to 8. Seas a bit bumpy, so it’s rocking the boat a bit. Oh – we just got to 11 knots on the wind. That’s good. The […]
DEEP THOUGHTS AND ZERO WIND
It’s daytime again, 1:30PM. I’ll probably finish this during my night watch. But there have been some deep thoughts, on this day that is exactly a month from the day we left Cape Town. We have gone about 4,000 miles, and have been at sea for 4 weeks. So we are basically doing 1000 miles […]
STORMY, STORMY NIGHT
Current time: 7AM (we realized we’d crossed a time zone, and reset our clocks) Current position: South 2 degrees, 01 minute, West 30 degrees, 55 minutes Hi, Everyone. I was going to call this update “a boat is a moving vehicle,” to give you the sense of what it means to be at sea – […]
SHIP OR STAR? NEW LESSONS. MOTORING.
Current time: 3:52AM Current position: South 1 degree, 12 minutes, West 30 degrees, 59 minutes Hi, Everyone. Golly. So much to say and so little time. I want to finish writing a piece for a client on this watch, or at least today. I’ll have to type fast. First, we are motoring. Only one engine; […]
LOTS HAPPENING … CROSSED EQUATOR … RACING ALONG IN TRADWINDS
Current time: 4:08 AM Current position: North 3 degrees 2 minutes West 31 degrees 46 minutes Hi, All. Sorry I missed a day. Been really busy, and just had to finish that copy for Shloma. Took up all my writing time. As I type this, the boat is violently making its way north, through some […]