Position: 34,3.94N , 71,56.33W Speed: 6 knots, Course: 341 deg. Cayard Cruise Lines May 05 When Paul and Kimo called last May and told me Paul was starting a Pirates themed division of Disney Cruise lines I didn’t hesitate to sign on. Paul said it would be great. Exotic locations, skull and cross bones and […]
Position: 26,28.80 N , 65,2.90 W Speed: 18 knots, Course: 326 deg. It has been a day of change. We have sailed through a large mass of cloud that is the remnant of a decaying cold front. It was probably 200 miles wide as seen from the satellite pictures. Under this clouds deck, the winds […]
Join Kimo Worthington, General Manager of The Pirates of the Caribbean for a virtual tour of The Black Pearl. Kimo swaps his mobile phone for a microphone, to take you on a tour of our team’s impressive VO70 through The Black Pearl website. Kimo will take you down below to see the sailors’ sleeping quarters, […]
Position: 23,26.35N , 61,9.30W Speed: 14 knots, Course: 303 deg. What a day! It all started off just as great as yesterday ended. The Pearl making gains on the competition, nice easy trade winds sailing, warm and sunny. Then in a one hour period, the spinnaker we had trouble with yesterday started parting at the […]
Position: 16,43.19N , 56,39.4W Speed: 18 knots, Course: 330 deg. Progress onboard the Black Pearl has been going well over the past 48 hours. We got out of out weak angles and into our fast sails. We have managed to put miles on almost everyone including ABN1 at times. The conditions are reaching with masthead […]
Position: 7,8.77N , 46,55.96W Speed: 17 knots, Course: 311 deg. We had been stressed about our lack of speed for long enough. Brasil1 kept putting miles on us and Ericsson was getting closer. Even though we could not see anything on the keel or rudder, we decided the only way to get the possibility that […]
We have had Brasil in sight all day and they have been making slow but steady gains on us. We have tried everything, different sails, different trim and shapes, different helmsmen. They are just 1 mile away so we can see what sails they have up and they appear to be the same as ours […]
It was a stressful couple of days for us on the Pearl. The boat was not going very fast and we tried everything to get her going but to no avail. We also did get hit by more than our fair share of “parking lots” partly our fault and partly bad luck. Our competitors kept […]
Position: 13,4.11S , 35,39.36W Speed: 13 knots, Course: 34 deg. It was a light a variable day today with winds as light as 3 knots. There is always a lot of anxiety when you have that little wind as you wonder what everyone else has. Today we had to fight our way through a large […]
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