I must admit that it has been a rather stressful last couple of days. With all the mishaps we had over the last couple of days, coupled with a general lack of wind and the fact that we felt tantalizing close (triple digit miles) to Hawaii, I was more on edge to be done, Read More

We’ve managed to sail ourselves into a patch of light winds smack in the middle of the traditional NE trades. We motored for a couple hours in the afternoon and we’re lucky enough to sail most of the night until about 10 am when the engine came back on again. It’s not that I, Read More

Well I am happy to report that nothing broke in the last 24 hours! We had a slower than anticipated run but we are still on track. We were able to sail all night however the wind angles kept shifting and the wind speed has been constantly dropping over the last 12 hours. It, Read More

After our first night of had steering, which went real well, we awoke to lighter winds in the 12-13 it range and I decided to hoist the spinnaker. We were sailing along for about two hours on the kite at 130 degrees apparent wind when all of a sudden the boat rounded up and, Read More

Well we thought we were sitting pretty good until 0600 this morning. We were cruising along with great speed directly towards our Hawaiian way point, 7-8 knots over ground and the trades truly pushing us along and then one of the worst (not THE worst of course) things happens, our autopilot stops working. We, Read More

Two exciting things happened today. (I know, big day out here) #1 at 1400 on April 3 we hit the halfway point of the trip. It took us 11 days to cover 1520 miles and we are on track to  cover the next 1520 in 9-10 days based on our latest averages. We are, Read More

We’ve covered more miles in the last 24 hours that Asunto has ever done since she was trailered across the country on a flat bed truck! Although I know this record (169 nautical mile straight line run) will be broken in the future, and hopefully even on this trip, it was nice to accomplish, Read More

Some days are better than some nights. We had a great sail from noon until 9pm and another great sail from 6am to noon, but those hours in the dark were very trying last night. Instead of blowing a nice 16-18 knots from about 45-50 magnetic (like it seems to do all day), the wind, Read More

We have had a pretty good 24 hour run, essentially on a beam reach. We never got above 90 degrees apparent but we saw as low as 130 before we decided to dive a little deeper and go wing and wing with the updated weather route. The boat was just humming along, carried full, Read More

Nothing to extraordinary really, but man what a night. My shift from 9 pm to midnight saw us lose about half our wind. Instead of blowing a great 18 kts from behind, the wind decided to drop to 8-10 kts but stayed right behind us such that the apparent wind speed was so low, Read More