Author: Lara

March 14, 2019 We have stars again! The moon is interfering with visibility somewhat but not nearly as much as the clouds were. We had great sailing weather today and it continues tonight. We’ve got 15-20 knots fairly consistently out of tune SE and are able to hold the rhumb line with the wind at […]

March 13, 2019 So the squall wasn’t a squall – it was a weather system of some sort that brought over 12 hours of rain. After I went to bed, it continued raining on everyone. At least it was fair – all watches got equally wet. The excitement today, apart from the end of the […]

March 12, 2019 The banana bread is gone. The bread, the moment, all of it. The adventure is back in the form of a squall that won’t leave. The day was great. The waves finally calmed enough that we could go on the foredeck and do our PE activities. Cobin and I resumed our boat […]

March 11, 2019 Another night, another blog entry! Tonight was poetry night on Charm and I was inspired by one of my favorite poets, Billy Collins, to think about the juxtaposition of me, the writer, and you, my Reader. We are probably both fixated on bright little screens at the moment. For your sake, I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]