by Rich Wilson | Feb 4, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We made good progress into last night. It is 92°F (33.3°C) in the cabin so I had a salt water shower and then freshwater rinse in the cockpit after sunset. It was hugely refreshing. I have been looking at some of the data that is available now to mariners in...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 3, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Last night, after the sun set, I went down Joff Brown’s checklist for the boat. He is our Boat Captain and Team Manager, and knows the boat inside and out. I had to do the list after sunset because it’s simply too hot to spend time scrutinizing a piece...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 2, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Yesterday and today we have been finally out of our seemingly private bubble high with no wind, and into the usual South Atlantic high pressure system that generates the Southeast Trade winds near the equator. Finally we are making miles in the correct direction....
by Rich Wilson | Feb 1, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Yesterday was a very difficult day. From morning to nighttime, essentially zero wind, the boat going in circles, or at 2 knots if we had 2 knots of wind. I’d change from genoa to solent, and even to the staysail thinking that it might stand whereas the genoa and...
