A beautiful sunset on the water with wonderful cloud formations. hard to tell yet whether to tonight will be peaceful like last night, or have some whoppers in it - clouds seem to have yet to decide.
We're reaching along with the spirit of 83' and making excellent time toward the island. Good pace so far for a great day. The weather ahead will dictate when we finish, looking more likely to be in the early night of Sunday - since maintaining our current 1 hour average of 8.9kts seems unlikely!
We saw our first fishing boat leaving HI for the very waters we fished a few days ago. Definitely a sign of impending civilization. As we get closer, we will see increasing commercial fishing and other traffic - a slow ease back into the world of land and fixed objects.
The finish process works as follows (and may be viewable from the pacific cup website)
We will have a radio check-in to the finish line at 100 miles and 25 miles. 100miles is a long way, so once that happens we still have another 11-13 hours of sailing left. 25miles is about 3-4 hours and then we finish. The word used by the Pacific Cup is "pau" the Hawaian word.
In <1.5 hours, we will cross back into United States of America's national water. There are no signposts, but it is a bit of a warm feeling - a reunification of the little piece of USA we've been on, and the country she left just 11 days ago.
-Beqweeeee
July 29 0503Z, July 28 2203 PDT 1903HST
23 45'N x 154 53W 210nm from Finish
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NOTE: There has been some trouble with the blog -- several of the last entries didn't post due to a glitch (Days 9, 10). We are getting the posts through another method now.
We're reaching along with the spirit of 83' and making excellent time toward the island. Good pace so far for a great day. The weather ahead will dictate when we finish, looking more likely to be in the early night of Sunday - since maintaining our current 1 hour average of 8.9kts seems unlikely!
We saw our first fishing boat leaving HI for the very waters we fished a few days ago. Definitely a sign of impending civilization. As we get closer, we will see increasing commercial fishing and other traffic - a slow ease back into the world of land and fixed objects.
The finish process works as follows (and may be viewable from the pacific cup website)
We will have a radio check-in to the finish line at 100 miles and 25 miles. 100miles is a long way, so once that happens we still have another 11-13 hours of sailing left. 25miles is about 3-4 hours and then we finish. The word used by the Pacific Cup is "pau" the Hawaian word.
In <1.5 hours, we will cross back into United States of America's national water. There are no signposts, but it is a bit of a warm feeling - a reunification of the little piece of USA we've been on, and the country she left just 11 days ago.
-Beqweeeee
July 29 0503Z, July 28 2203 PDT 1903HST
23 45'N x 154 53W 210nm from Finish
_______________________________________________________________________
NOTE: There has been some trouble with the blog -- several of the last entries didn't post due to a glitch (Days 9, 10). We are getting the posts through another method now.
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