Sail: Working jib and main; what there is of wind is on the beam.
Noon-to-Noon Miles Made Good (nm): 143 Miles since departure: 36,637
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Randall: Have you seen the weather forecast for the Gulf of Alaska, Monte? It’s looking pretty grim. Monte: Senior, I do not consult your forecasts. A forecast ...
Noon Position: 59 45N 168 97W Course(t)/Speed(kts): SxE 7 Wind(t/tws): NE 18 Sea(t/ft): NE 10+ Sky/10ths Cover: Mostly clear; post-low cumulus astern. 3 Bar(mb): 997 On-deck Temp(f): ? Cabin Temp(f): 57 Water Temp(f): 52 Relative Humidity(%): 68 Magnetic Variation: 8.1
Sail: All three sails flying. Wind on port quarter
Noon-to-Noon Miles Made Good (nm): 152 Miles since departure: 36,494
The barometer got as low as 991, but by 4am wind velocities hadn’t changed in hours and neither had the seas, which only rarely threw over Mo their loving embrace ...
Alex Thomson’s brand new IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss was formally christened last night on The River Thames in London. It was in typical BOSS style and the photos are lovely, but they were a little upstaged by the photos of the interior which the team released at the same time. They also released a video and both are a little mind-blowing – especially the interior. Alex plans to sail the boat from down below most of the time and rather than mess with a hard cabin top ...
In a recent blog post Navionics announced they’ve added vectors to AIS target displays and the ability to edit rate and review ActiveCaptain Community points of interest (POIs). It looks like Navionics is making good on their promise of rapid improvements to their AIS features.
The post goes on to say that the vectors displayed on each target show the distance that will be covered in the next 6 minutes at current speed. I’m currently traveling back from the NMEA annual conference so I haven’t been able to try out AIS on the boat but will shortly.
Noon Position: 62 16N 167 36W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): SxW 7
Wind(t/tws): ENE 30
Sea(t/ft): ENE 10
Sail: Working jib rolled up by half; broad reach.
Noon-to-Noon Miles Made Good (nm): 146
Miles since departure: 36,342
I rode the twin headsails all night and Mo burned up the road. But by dawn, wind had veered too far into the E to hold them longer. I doused the poles before coffee and while the sky was still red at the margins and only then noticed wind was already well over 20 knots. ...
Emirates Team New Zealand Americas Cup entry Te Aihe
In the last week two brand new AC75’s have been launched and they could not be more different. The first to splash was the New York Yacht Club entry American Magic later christened Defiant while on the other side of the world in Auckland, New ...
I was climbing down the pier ladder to the boat when I heard a hail. “You’ve been one-upped,” yelled a man standing over where Tecla had moored the previous night.
“Not likely,” I replied before I could check myself.
Tekla is an unusual vessel, a steel-hulled gaff ketch built in the Netherlands in 1915 and recently restored. Now she’s a sail-training vessel that’s just completed the Northwest Passage. A small crowd had gathered to admire her, and among them, this man; gray-haired; short of stature and wearing a blue jacket and sock cap.
The news of Don McIntyre’s reinvention of the original Whitbread race raises some interesting questions about the psychology of modern sailing. The thought of a fully crewed race around the world employing none of the technology and little of the labor-saving equipment we now take for granted excites some people and strikes horror into the hearts of others.
McIntyre tested the waters, so to speak, with the recently concluded Golden Globe race, in which 16 redoubtable sailors set off on a somewhat quixotic rerun of the original solo round-the-world race held half a century ago. Minus mod cons like GPS, ...
Vesper has cemented a reputation for high performance, well-thought-out, feature-rich products. So, when they tease that “The future is coming” as they have in their recent promotional material it’s worth paying attention. It turns out Vesper’s take on the future is about continuing their track record of innovative features while expanding their capabilities to VHF radios and boat monitoring.
Today at the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) expo and conference in Norfolk, VA, Vesper announced Cortex, VHF, AIS, and Monitor. Cortex is a modular system with a base unit, handsets, and mobile app. Cortex systems can start with just ...
