Position: 51,20.76S , 125,56.92W Speed: 19 knots, Course: 121 deg. Long Day today with plenty of decisions to be made. So far so good. We are finally done with the northern loop and we can focus on the Corn now. Movistar ended up beating us to the “bouy” by about 5 boat lengths. It was […]

Position: 48,14.86S , 135,49.96W Speed: 20 knots, Course: 88 deg. This one is going to be hard to write. We are slamming pretty violently on a 100 true wind angle reach, even though we are only going about 20 knots. I was pleased with the way we sailed the past 48 hours, our positioning mainly, […]

Position: 49,55.78S , 145,1.97W Speed: 12 knots, Course: 12 deg. This is the first time I can remember heading North in the Southern Ocean. North is just not a normal heading out here. East is the heading you want or Southeast. Well, we are heading North and not for just a little while; 24 hours […]

Position: 52,18.46S , 148,17.81W Speed: 13 knots, Course: 71 deg. Another easy and uneventful day on the Black Pearl. The wind lightened up quite a bit as we have come north to cross the high pressure ridge and deal with what is left of a tropical depression. It is just a big mess up here, […]

Position: 53,50.91S , 155,8.83W Speed: 19 knots, Course: 78 deg. So far so good. The South is paying us back for our investment. The boats in the North are very light. They must be hoping to pop out of the ridge first and get the new Northwesterly’s in front of the next cold front. Our […]

We are at one of those rare moments in life where you completely relive the same day. As we crossed the international dateline yesterday near the end of the day, it immediately became the night before…”last night”..if you know what I mean. So today, we are having another crack at February 21 and it has […]

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