March 10, 2019 Today started with an absence of water and ended with sugar. We’ve had good wind for several days but that has also brought larger seas. Joe was having trouble with the water maker pressure, possibly because of the constant up and down movement of the boat which wasn’t allowing the water maker […]
Marquesas
Marquesas 4
March 9, 2019 Photo is fish from yesterday – forgot to send. We are starting to enter that blurry phase when the days blend and it seems like we have always been and will always be, on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. I’m getting a full night’s sleep and I’m still tired most of […]
Marquesas Day 3
It was an interesting day! If you look at our track, you can probably see some nice, straight lines and crisp turns when we had wind and then, around 4 to 10 pm, more meandering s-curves with a defined c where our spinnaker lost a battle with a small but fierce squall. We were in […]
Marquesas Day 2
March 7, 2019 My watch just ended with a sail change so just a quick note and then off to bed. Another nice day with decent winds and reasonable seas. Tonight has been a bit bouncier with variable winds so we dropped the spin Amy and put up the gen baker. Still doing about 8.5 […]
Marquesas crossing Day 1
March 3, 2019 Greetings Charm fans (both electric and conventional). We have begun what will be our longest sea passage on our circumnavigation with the World ARC. It is just under 3,000 miles to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas island chain and we have 2,872 left to go. Oops – the wind shifted a bit […]