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Day 5 in the Eastern Pacific

Day 5 in the Eastern Pacific

April 17,2018 1526 UTC 14°17.6N 112°45.2W Partly sunny with 50% cloud cover. We all just had breakfast in the cockpit consisting of eggs salad on crackers, beef jerky and some Costco chocolate covered clusters. Yeah, our breakfast is not typical but it works in all the food groups. About two nights ago, we were making poor speed with our double poled yankee and stay sail. With light winds downwind of us, we thought we’d catch most of the wind that…

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Luminesce Sets Sail For the Marquesas.

Luminesce Sets Sail For the Marquesas.

UTC 0013 Apr 13 2018 Latitude20°18.113N Longitude 105°59.544W Windspeed 5 kts Boat speed 4.5 kts Course 220deg M Crew on Board: Jeff, Monica, Anna, and Sophia Crew Condition: All in good spirits. Anna is a bit seasick and Sophia is bored. We pulled up our anchor in Punta De Mita at 9:30 local time on April 12, 2018. As Jeff finished putting the anchor away, I drove over to our friends’ boats, sv Banyan and sv Free Spirit, to say…

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Testing Our Email Posts

Testing Our Email Posts

Testing, testing, 1,2,3… Uh hmmm. If you can hear this I guess it’s working. At the moment, we are trying to make sure that our email posts from open ocean is going to work. Only a few days left before we untie the dock lines from La Cruz Marina Nayarit in Mexico. We are going to miss Mexico for its food, people, beauty, and laid back style. Jitters? Yeah, what if I don’t have enough toilet paper? What if we…

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