Thursday August 3 Day 10 to Horta, farther east than I’ve ever sailed… 699.4nm in and 1117nm to Horta 1:29 pm: Charlie Echo Tango Alpha Charlie Echo Alpha is an[…]
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To Azores Day 9
Wednesday August 2 Day 9 to Horta… 1194nm to go on this leg with 620.8nm behind us. All is well in the verse. Then out of nowhere… The seas are[…]
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To Azores Day 8
Tuesday August 1 8th Day at Sea! The world is fucking intense. High Cirrus on blue…double reefed with a blankie Yankee doing 6 knots through a choppy flow… 542.1nm from[…]
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To Azores Day 7
Monday, July 31 Day Seven, a week at sea in the Atlantic Flow, Earth’s Ocean. The seas are huge and tumultuous again…and again and again. One of my love/hate design[…]
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To Azores Day 6
Sunday July 30 We did 96 NM yesterday in 24 hours and that’s a new record for this leg of the adventure. The sea-state is still very angry but moving[…]
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To Azores Day 5
Saturday, July 29 James’ 12:00-12:30 pm watch: Dena and I talked about people of color in our writing. James’ 1-4pm watch: I managed to get her nice and balanced on[…]
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To Azores Day 4
Friday, July 28 Noontime watch: we split the 12:00 hour into two 30 minute “workout” watches. It gives us an odd switch over so we don’t get stuck with the[…]
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To Azores Day 3
Thursday, July 27 At midday’s 8 bells we had 1666nm before us to Horta… We’ve switched up the watch schedule to include a 3 hour private time for each of[…]
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To Azores Day 2
Wednesday, July 26 Dena’s 12:30-1 pm watch: The sun, wow…it somehow sucked the wind off the surface of the north Atlantic flow…then it came back up, then…our world breathes like[…]
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To Azores Day 1
Tuesday July 25 Planning a sailing voyage that’s going to take weeks is a funny thing to do. We won’t be meeting any schedules (by setting minimum speeds and such,[…]
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