What a change! Yesterday we were filling out fuel tanks in the fun with no shirts while motoring along at 5 kts on flat calm seas and today we are inundated with a thick fog, 20 kts of breeze and a broken autopilot. That’s right folks, not only have I had to put pants, Read More

Well we made it (I hope). All the forecasts say we should be seeing some wind this afternoon and building for the next two days. I was a little skeptical when I went on shift this morning considering how calm it was again, however the swell had backed more to the west and we, Read More

Well we are truly in the North Pacific High now. For our noon to noon run we managed 117 miles which is pretty good considering we motored for 21/24 hours at 1500 RPM to save fuel. We had a couple hours of sailing and had the main out again which was nice to turn, Read More

Well we made it through the night but had to turn the engine on at this morning as the wind was all but gone. We were able to ghost along from 11am to noon which was a nice break from the engine noise but hopefully the high will pass over us and we will, Read More

Well the boys finally caught a fish. It was a pretty small Mahi Mahi but there was enough meat for the three of us (Ron does not eat fish). Jed looked back and saw the fish flapping on the surface and yelled “Fish on!” Do we all ran back to see the monster be, Read More

As you may have read here, our boom has a significant bend in it and need to be replaced.  This is devastating for us and therefore we made a (difficult) decision to ask our friends and readers for help. If you are interested in helping us by contributing to having our boom replaced you, Read More

Well another great day sailing with the Genoa. We are again on a beam reach and managed to knock off 169 miles for the noon to noon run. Jed and Kevin have been fishing for the last couple days without luck so I thought I would take my turn at cooking dinner for everyone., Read More

We had a pretty good run of 171 miles in the last 24 hours and speeds well over 8 knots at times. It has been great. The seas have calmed down a lot and we have been blasting along on a beam reach. Although the wind instruments have not been working we keep sailing, Read More

Needless to say it was very disheartening to break the boom yesterday. Although it isn’t completely broken it is virtually unusable and we have decided to carry on to Alaska as turning back would mean an end to this trip for the guys and our trip as family as well. We had a great, Read More

Well it was a slow start to the day and it was harder to leave Hawaii than I had anticipated. Although I am really excited to get to Alaska and explore SE, I really felt like leaving Hawaii was a big turning point for the trip as there would be no more warm water, Read More