Sailing Strategy

The sun rose this morning filling the sky with reds, oranges, and pinks and reflecting on the glassy water. The ocean looked like a large reflecting pool with not a single ripple. Just Drifting cut through the water with ease and there was very little swell. Originally the plan was […]

We had not crossed the equator at noon but at dusk we are saying hello to the north pacific ocean. Today was another windless day with the motor running at 2100 RPMs and we have been fairly steady at 5.0 knots motor sailing. We have been really well rested and […]

We are in the doldrums as our weather forecast has accurately predicted. We realize that we should not dwell on what has happened in the past, but it is very annoying to pull the weather each day and see if we would have not been detained by the crazy man […]

We have no wind! We have been motor sailing the whole day, but sometimes we put the sails away because they are no help at all. We had planned to leave a day earlier to stay ahead of these doldrums but had to stay and report the crazy man in […]

In Honolulu we had taken a weather class that suggested the best way to cross the equator transiting to Hawaii or French Polynesia is to sail along the equator and once you are able to see a hole in the clouds over the equator and ITCZ make a run to […]