Tag: squalls

  • 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…