Less than a week to go
There is less than a week remaining until our departure on the Pac Cup, and I’m still sorting through my high tech underwear, counting out cliff bars, making masses of food, and trying to find dry ice...
View ArticlePac Cup 2010 Race Tracker and BV Party
http://www.ionearth.com/2010/pacific-cup/ The race tracker is on-line and showing the Pac Cup boats, which today (Sunday) are still in their slips at various marinas around the Bay. The trackers are...
View ArticleVALIS Blog
Most of the Pac Cup 2010 updates from VALIS will be on VALIS’s own blog, here: http://sailvalis.com/wordpress_1/ I’ll be posting only my own notes here, probably text-only until we get to within WiFi...
View ArticleWe’re Off!
Pac Cup 2010 started yesterday for Divisions DH1 and A with a bang, but one which tapered off to a whimper as winds died and the swell built. The whole fleet is headed north of the rhumb line in search...
View ArticleDay 2
The wind has kicked in and we are moving well now, though it is a Southerly which pressages another slow patch before we achive the Nirvana of the EPAC High that will sweep us South to the Sandwich...
View ArticleClose Encounters of a Tiki Kind
195 nm out of San Francisco, 3 full days into the Pacific Cup Race, we passed within 50 yards of Tiki J, a racer in Division B. Or rather, she passed us, making about 1 kt to our 0 kt. Nozomi, a DH1...
View ArticleVMG > 6.2 kts for 12 days
S/V VALIS is moving well now, close reaching in 15 kts of wind at over 7 kts average boatspeed, We’re over 300 nm out of San Francisco, but with still 1770 nm to go to the Finish we will need to...
View Article9.24 kts
10 July 2010 1730 PDT Well, gray skys big wind and building seas have returned. We’re reaching @ 235 degM with all plain sail, wind 25kts. I scored a personal best of 9.24 kts earlier this afternoon...
View ArticleJuly 11 — 1469 nm out
It’s Sunday July 11, and as of 0800 PDT we were 1469 nm from Kaneohe. In order to make the Luau Wednesday evening, we will have to sail these miles in 274 hours, at an average VMG of 5.361 kts (129...
View ArticleFish on!
Big day here on VALIS, 14 July 2010. We awoke to the smell of baking cinnamon rolls in the oven, to be enjoyed with a hearty cup of Starbucks VIA coffee. Then, after the engine had been run and the...
View Article75 degrees Farenheit
75 F. That is the temperature of the water now running under VALIS’s keel as we surge through the swell 380nm from Kaneohe. Today was celebrated as the much-delayed Laundry Day. I washed my clothes in...
View ArticleMt. Gaytorade
For all VALIS’s many virtues, she lack the amenty of an ice-maker. Damn. So cocktail time can be a bit challenging. Today was a perfect, at-sea, going-to-Hawai’i day, and I had about 6 hours in between...
View ArticlePacCup2010 photo gallery
This post has been back dated to fit in with the rest of the PacCup 2010 story. Gallery of pics from aboard VALIS is here. http://downtothesea.org/david/paccup2010/index.htm
View ArticleFriction Loss in PacCup 2010
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] A nice vid from J/30 Friction Loss with Anarchist crew, from this year’s Pac Cup. They came in 2nd in...
View ArticleThe Lost Blog Posts of PacCup 2010
I made 9 blog posts from sea aboard S/V VALIS during the Pacific Cup Race of 2010. And none of them showed up. Prior to the race I had tested the email blog submission process ashore, but for some...
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