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 […]
Author: Kristin Zhivago
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 […]
NO MORE DETAILED UPDATES FOR ABOUT A WEEK, PROBABLY
Well, after I sent out the update last night, our autopilot unit failed. The unit on the masthead, which senses wind direction and speed, appears to have fallen off. Ten minutes later… I take that back – I thought it might have fallen into the “stack pack,” which is where the sail goes when we […]
CRISIS AVERTED BY OH GREAT CAPTAIN
What can you say about a captain who understands that if you cut the wire carrying the data, you will be left with a functioning autopilot – steering by compass course (which is the way we always have it steer anyway?). What can you say about a captain who, even though he is seriously lacking […]
PEACEFUL
< Current Time: 2:53 AM Current Position: North 4 degrees, 32 minutes, West 34 degrees, 11 minutes Hi, Everyone. Thanks for your prayers and good wishes. We are very relieved. “All’s well that ends well,” comes to mind. At least that’s how I’m feeling this evening. The boat is gliding rather peacefully along – not […]
SHAKE, RATTLE, ROLL … AND A NEW REEFING LINE INSTALLED
Current time: 2:25 AM Monday Current Position: North 6 degrees, 20 minutes; West 36 degrees, 25 minutes Hi, Everyone. I’m sitting in the pilothouse on my watch, as usual. The boat is racing along at 8.5 knots, even though the jib is reefed to about half its size and the mainsail is on its second […]