Hawaii to San Francisco Cruise – Sunday Report
We got the another squall, with rain and winds this morning, perfect way to start Rick’s “boat birthday” and for what we hoped to be a lazy sunday… hum, i […]
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Short and to the point
relaying from an email receive today. sent at 10:17 PDT: all on board are in fine spirits and super well. we are eating well, trying to get used to this […]
From our friends on Holua….
Hi to all with loved ones and friends aboard J/World. As of this morning, they were at: 28 28’N 153 17’W with 9-12 kts of wind from 090* and all […]
Getting there as fast as possible, without a spinnaker…
Bummed to pass this one along… But, people have friends and family meeting them on the island, flight schedules, jobs to return to, etc… Apparently, the decision to retire was […]
Bad Ending…
Forwarding on excerpts from a “personal” email… “fyi we blew up all our spins in the last 24 hours. Really squally and tough. Surprised the 1.5 oz went… not that […]
This is why we do this…
Ok, it’s 2:30am. The light winds of this race have drawn out the first half to a painful 9 days. We’ve drifted for hours, prayed for wind, sacrificed anything we […]
Oh what a difference a day makes….
Oh what a difference a day makes…. Tonight, as I sit here writing this, we have the spinnaker up for the first evening, and the sound of water sizzling past […]
The Pacific lives up to its name.
From the J World Radio News: The Pacific lives up to its name. Yes indeed. Well, at least the part of the Pacific that is currently the venue for the […]
It was as if they were motoring!
Well, I have certainly had easier sailboat races. So not only is our destination halfway across the Pacific Ocean, and our route taking as far from dry land as you […]
Day 3, already?
So here we are, some 300 miles from our start off Point Fermin in LA, and really not that much has changed. We started in a building breeze, working upwind […]
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