Asunto dropped anchor outside Honolulu harbour at 4:15 am local time. Passage complete!
We are getting down to the nitty gritty at this point. Just at noon today we were able to zoom in enough on the chart plotter to actually see some depth contours! We also heard some radio chatter this morning as we approach Molokai and Oahu Islands. Since we have been running down wind, Read More
I’m really starting to get self conscious about posting about all the things that are going wrong on board but here we go… Last night on my 9pm – 12am shift I was hand steering as we were wing on wing and accidentally back winded the main and before I could get things sorted out we, Read More
A pretty uneventful day especially for what we’ve had over the past couple of days. The winds petered out about 3 amand we ended up motoring until noon. I am still running on the main tanks with 170 L in jerry cans we can top up if need be. I figure we will run as, Read More
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
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