Tag: Pacific Ocean crossing

  • Crossing 1/3 of the Pacific (by Calder Hyer, age 14)

                  On March 31, 2024, sailing vessel Terikah left the safe harbor of La Cruz, Mexico with a destination of Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia. Onboard were the Hyers, Cora, Calder, Dadu, and Mama, along with the crew, consisting of Emil Tucker. After large provisioning runs and filling up our water and diesel tanks, we…

  • Day 21: Crossing from Mexico to French Polynesia

    Yesterday, woke up to squally sky with the treat of a rainbow, a “squall-bow” a friend called it.  Winds up and down, five sail changes before pancakes done.  Winds filling in, sails up, and moving along!  Back to our old friend, beam seas and raucous noises.  Emil calls 17 knots of wind our “Goldilocks speed,”…

  • Day 18: Pacific Crossing to French Polynesia

    This morning, continued on our same course, making great progress with winds 15 and 1.5 knots current.  In the afternoon, winds decreased, sailing with our Code 0 and Main, still able to maintain speed above 5 knots with Equatorial Current our friend.  Seas calming, ahhh…feels lovely as we slowly move along.  Emil cleaned the barnacles…

  • Day 11: Pacific Crossing from Mexico to French Polynesia (half way!)

    We continue on the same course from the last few days, quite cloudy all around, will need to start the generator to charge our batteries without the sun.  We are still experiencing some wind (15-20 knots) and have our Code Zero up, as we approach the ITCZ. This morning I lost rock-paper-scissors and had to…

  • Day 10: Pacific Crossing from Mexico to French Polynesia

    So thankful the seas are more reasonable throughout the day.  We are trying to make our way south into the ITCZ at an area with fewer squalls.  Seas are behind us and on our beam today, rolling us as we go along, and we are hitting some currents; making for a slower day. Emil, crew…

  • Day 9: Pacific Crossing from Mexico to French Polynesia

    Last night’s passage and today are the biggest seas that we’ve ever been in, Chris and I staying up all night together to keep the waves coming from behind us and the sail trimmed.  Winds reached 30 knots.  Seas were 12-15 feet high and only 5-6 seconds apart, coming at us from two different directions;…

  • Day 1 of Passage from MX to FP

    7:30am, anchor up and underway.  Happy Easter morning!  Coffee (small) and steel cut oats for breakfast.  Scopolamine patches put on last night to prevent seasickness, dry mouth already starting ,but they work great for our family.  Friends on Amizade up and waving to us as we got underway.  Starting out in Bandaras Bay, calm and…