Wasco
Motoring
Avg: 6.6knts
24hr: 158.2nm
Slow 'til morning
Avg: 6.4knts
24hr: 154.5nm
Tumultuous and foggy
Avg: 5.7knts
24hr: 136.9nm
motoring, wind in 4 hours? First wildlife.
Avg: 6.7knts
24hr: 159.8nm
Sailing into a big hole, but maybe the sun will shine
Avg: 4.3knts
24hr: 103.3nm
Westerlies keep teasing
Avg: 22.3knts
24hr: 535.4nm
Tacked over, waiting for wind to back
Avg: 3knts
24hr: 72.8nm
On the nose for 36 hours, then break through to westerlies?
Avg: 6.8knts
24hr: 163nm
Cold, foggy, and bumpy but improving
Avg: 5.8knts
24hr: 139.8nm
Avg: 5.5knts
24hr: 132.3nm
Slow but steady, where's that low that was in the forecast?
Avg: 7.5knts
24hr: 180.7nm
Slow in light winds
Avg: 7.6knts
24hr: 181.4nm
Variable winds, still moving OK
Avg: 7.6knts
24hr: 183.3nm
Wind veering and lightening, pleasant
Avg: 7.3knts
24hr: 176nm
Lumpy, going slow for the ride
Avg: 8.1knts
24hr: 195.2nm
Got out of the trough, still lumpy.
Avg: 8.5knts
24hr: 202.9nm
Making decent time.
On our way, out of the tropics soon.
Avg: 6.1knts
24hr: 145.4nm
Marking time, 68 miles to go
Avg: 5.4knts
24hr: 128.8nm
Thursday morning?
Avg: 5.6knts
24hr: 134nm
Can you smell it?
Avg: 5.4knts
24hr: 130nm
416 miles to go!
It was windyer in the Sahara!
Avg: 5.9knts
24hr: 141.1nm
Slowly, slowly
Avg: 6.8knts
24hr: 164nm
Making our way - slowly
Avg: 5knts
24hr: 119.3nm
Taking it while we can
Avg: 5.4knts
24hr: 128.5nm
Driftin'
Avg: 6.9knts
24hr: 166.7nm
1000 miles to go, dying breeze
Avg: 7.1knts
24hr: 170nm
Three-quarters
Avg: 6.9knts
24hr: 166.2nm
Low near Hawaii - no wind after:(
Avg: 7.2knts
24hr: 173.1nm
Missing that spinnaker
Avg: 7.6knts
24hr: 181.6nm
Ducking south for wind
Avg: 8.7knts
24hr: 209.8nm
Still trying for the 200
Avg: 7.9knts
24hr: 188.4nm
Still waiting to put together 24 solid hours
Avg: 9knts
24hr: 215.1nm
Cookin' with gas
Avg: 8knts
24hr: 192nm
If only we could string together 24 hours like this one....
Avg: 6.8knts
24hr: 163.9nm
Another day...
Avg: 8.4knts
24hr: 200.9nm
Makin' for the trades on the outside...
Avg: 6.4knts
24hr: 153.8nm
Finally starting to move along.
Avg: 5.6knts
24hr: 134.4nm
Starting to get the NE trades?
Avg: 3.5knts
24hr: 84.5nm
A little breeze, heading S for looking for a bit more.
Avg: 3.7knts
24hr: 89nm
Blazing along DDW. Missing that spinnaker
Avg: 4.1knts
24hr: 98.8nm
More driftin'
Avg: 5.8knts
24hr: 138.4nm
Driftin'
Avg: 6.3knts
24hr: 151.5nm
Tehuantepeccer subsiding, having some fun
Avg: 6.1knts
24hr: 145.4nm
Lumpy but moving along
Avg: 5.1knts
24hr: 122.7nm
Tehuantepeccer headed our way
Avg: 6.2knts
24hr: 148.7nm
Missing our spinnaker
Avg: 5.5knts
24hr: 131.9nm
Wee-haaa - riding the edge of a Papagayo
Avg: 4.7knts
24hr: 112.5nm
Sailing hour by hour
Avg: 4.8knts
24hr: 115.1nm
Very slooow start
Motoring
Blazing along
Avg: 7.1knts
24hr: 170nm
Slow morning, slower afternoon
Avg: 8.8knts
24hr: 210.4nm
Can we make Portobelo tomorrow?
Avg: 8.8knts
24hr: 212.4nm
Cruising
Avg: 8.2knts
24hr: 197.1nm
Winds lighter than expected
On the way to Panama
Avg: 9.5knts
24hr: 228.4nm
Arriving soon, hope there's a mooring (no anchoring allowed)
Avg: 9.3knts
24hr: 223.6nm
200 miles done :)
Enroute to Bonaire. Sunday?
Avg: 8.6knts
24hr: 207.3nm
140 miles to go :)
Avg: 8.5knts
24hr: 205.2nm
So close, and yet so far
Avg: 8.2knts
24hr: 196.5nm
Happy New Year!
Avg: 8.5knts
24hr: 204.1nm
700 miles to go
Avg: 8.7knts
24hr: 207.7nm
Another day...
Avg: 9.4knts
24hr: 225.9nm
74 flying fish and one squid last night.
Avg: 9.4knts
24hr: 225.6nm
Moving now.
Avg: 5.1knts
24hr: 121.8nm
doldrums, what more can you say?
Avg: 5.4knts
24hr: 129.1nm
Pretty day, slow, wind comes back late tomorrow?
Avg: 6.1knts
24hr: 146.7nm
Blazing along in pouring rain just over the Equator
Avg: 8.3knts
24hr: 199.1nm
Finallt gybed
Avg: 8.8knts
24hr: 210.1nm
going on 5th day with spinnaker up
Avg: 8.2knts
24hr: 196.7nm
A small boat on a big ocean
Avg: 8.3knts
24hr: 200.1nm
More ocean
Afternoon hurrah giving us some speed
Avg: 4.7knts
24hr: 111.7nm
Bare poles all night, arrive first light.
Avg: 7knts
24hr: 167.5nm
Arrive right after dark?
Avg: 7.9knts
24hr: 189.7nm
All night gybathon
Avg: 6.9knts
24hr: 164.9nm
Slowly onward - "The World" passed by today
On the road again
Avg: 7.2knts
24hr: 173.6nm
Almost there!
Avg: 7.8knts
24hr: 188.3nm
Not much to say, tradewind sailing
Avg: 7.8knts
24hr: 187.9nm
Western Hemisphere!
Avg: 7.5knts
24hr: 178.9nm
gybed last night, seas building
Avg: 7.7knts
24hr: 183.7nm
Kite up and moving along
Avg: 7.6knts
24hr: 183.1nm
Still waiting for the waves to die down.
Avg: 9.5knts
24hr: 228.5nm
Laying down the miles
Avg: 9.7knts
24hr: 231.9nm
> 210 yesterday, nice start, windy last night
On the way to St. Helena!
Avg: 6.9knts
24hr: 165.4nm
Richards Bay in the morning?
Avg: 5.2knts
24hr: 125.8nm
On the road again, where's the at wind shift?
Avg: 7.2knts
24hr: 171.7nm
Gale/RTS - what fun
Avg: 6.1knts
24hr: 145.8nm
Motoring :(
Avg: 7.1knts
24hr: 169.5nm
A beautiful day - lots of ships though
Avg: 4.8knts
24hr: 116.2nm
Bumpy but mostly moving along
Avg: 5.5knts
24hr: 131.6nm
Avg: 8.3knts
24hr: 199.6nm
Pleasant three days, shoe drops tomorrow
Avg: 9.1knts
24hr: 218.1nm
Moving Along
On the way to SA
On the way to Reunion
Avg: 5.1knts
24hr: 122.9nm
Yep, that's right, a blazing 3 knots. 20 miles to go, so no biggie.
Are you there already?
Avg: 2.7knts
24hr: 65.4nm
Drifting toward Mauritius. We'll get tired of going this slow, but quite a pleasant change for the moment.
Avg: 5.5knts
24hr: 132nm
Arrived Rodrigues Sept 5. Looks like the Winlink submissions didn't go through. Mauritius on Monday
Avg: 8.3knts
24hr: 199.5nm
Bumpy, but more pleasant than before:)
Moving Along
Avg: 8knts
24hr: 191.4nm
30 miles to go!
Avg: 8.8knts
24hr: 212.1nm
Sunday? Wind dropping:(
Avg: 8.3knts
24hr: 199.6nm
Another quick afternoon to be followed by a slow night
Avg: 6.9knts
24hr: 165nm
Avg: 8.6knts
24hr: 206.6nm
Saw a manta ray today
Avg: 7knts
24hr: 168.1nm
Another day, another few miles
Avg: 8.9knts
24hr: 212.6nm
Lumpy, slowed down for comfort
Avg: 9.3knts
24hr: 223.4nm
The speed won't last, sunset hurrah
Onward to Cocos
Ashmore Reef. Tons of turtles.
Avg: 7.6knts
24hr: 181.7nm
Dolphins today, first in a long time
Avg: 8.5knts
24hr: 204.1nm
Moving along, will we make Ashmore by dark tomorrow?
Great day's run - keep it up!
Underway! Pleasant afternoon
Getting ready to leave Darwin
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