Tag: Terikah

  • Day 8: Crossing from MX to FP

    The seas and wind decreased a bit overnight, making my morning watch (5-9am) enjoyable as the sun came up.  Flying fish in all directions, trying to outfly/outswim the boobie birds who circle our boat.  Birds always seem very curious about us, sometimes landing on us (a place to rest?), other times circling around us (perhaps…

  • Day 7 of Crossing from MX to FP

    We will have another 36 hours or so of these bigger seas and continue our way SW, trying to keep the seas behind us, though they are coming from three different directions.  Seas still about 6-9 feet and steep.  I was a bit green last night, but doing better this morning.  We are paralleling the…

  • April 5: Day 6 of Crossing from MX to FP

    Woke up to light winds, motored for two more hours until I did a wind dance, resulting in the wind slowly increasing until we could sail.  Okay, so likely not my dance, but still the timing was great.  Great brunch of burritos from Emil.  Put the asym out and have been sailing happily downwind.  Captain…

  • Day 4: Passage from MX to FP

    All of us a bit “drained” after our rolly night, enjoyed a hearty breakfast of eggs and potatoes.  Captain down to take a nap; we are trying our best to conserve his energy for more squirrely times when he is truly needed at the wheel.  He is the best active sailor of all of us. …

  • Day 3: Passage from MX to FP

    What a difference a few hours make.  I left my night shift with only 8 knots of wind, boat going 3.7.  I woke up at 8am with up to 20 knot gusts and the boat moving along at 6-8 knots.  Seas VERY lumpy; combo of wind waves and swells.  No seasickness yet, but we’re not…

  • Day 2: Passage from MX to FP

    Starting the day out with minimal wind (5.3 knots) with boat speed only 2.5, down to gentle ocean swell and light chop.  All of us were a bit tired due to keeping watch and the loud bridgedeck slap keeping us awake (a “special” feature of catamarans).  Breakfast was homemade granola from Christine (thanks!) and fresh…

  • The Night Before Departure

    Out at anchor, to-do lists checked off (mostly), last minute food prepped and stowed, the dinghy tied up tight to our stern, the weather checked…one cannot help but be contemplative about the upcoming voyage.  We plan to pull the anchor by 8am and be on our way.  The passage from Mexico to French Polynesia is…

  • One Week Until Departure

    And the results of the Trashboat Regatta…Calder Hyer in 2nd place, a trophy now on our dash! Projects are getting checked off the list daily.  Chris replaced the line organizer turn blocks at the base of the mast.  These important parts direct all the lines from the cockpit to the mast and had become corroded…

  • A Week in the Life

    And…we are still at the La Cruz marina…preparations, preparations, preparations, and a bit of play.  Here is one full week of daily journal entries to give you a feel of our La Cruz dock life. It got a bit long! March 6, 2024 La Cruz has an active cruising kids group led by a passionate…

  • Reunion in Bahia Concepcion

    After a long motor north in rolly seas, all of us a bit green except for Gma Hyer and Calder, we had a lovely final 1-hour sail into our anchorage, Bahia Santa Domingo in Bahia Concepcion.  Even my loaf of bread felt too ill to rise properly!  Bahia Concepcion is a large, narrow bay 25…