S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 7 – 67 NM 7/3 James’ 1-2 pm watch: The sun is so overhead that I can shade my feet with my hat when I[…]
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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts
To Bermuda, Day 6
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 6 – 47 NM 7/2 James’ 12:30-1 pm watch When noon came around, a tanker was passing us less than a mile away. Safe enough[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 5
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 5 – 43 NM 7/1 James’ noon-12:30 pm watch 12:18 pm: Glass again, or still. We’re looking at the eventual possibility of running low enough[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 4
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 4 – 44NM 6/30 Dena’s 3-4 pm watch 3:02 pm: We lost the wind but made two hours of water with the propulsion pack cross-connected.[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 3
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 3 – 62NM 6/29 James’ noon-12:30 pm watch Started with a bang. The Simrad didn’t correctly log the distance we traveled. James got it on[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 2
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 2 – 67NM 6/28 Dena’s half watch, noon-12:30 pm 12:13 pm: Saw a bird! Long wingspan for the size of its body, but I didn’t[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 1
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 1 – 94NM (18 hours) 6/27 James’ 7-8 pm watch 7:47 pm: Anchor came up just fine. I’m a little worried about how the dinghy[…]
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The proving grounds
…and then we went sailing! Marathon was such a fucking drag in the end that we couldn’t help but laugh on our way out of there. We’d been in that[…]
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The Invisible Amount of Money
The slow circumnavigation of a 30′ electric sailboat holds a real excitement for people, especially since we can’t find any other sailboats who have done it or are ahead of[…]
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Come on, Marlec
So, of all the new technologies we’ve gotten to know and the new battery chemistry and the new…well…everything propulsion and steering that isn’t our sailing rig, the only one to[…]
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