Early in the trip, I spoke about being on night watch without a moon. The way this trip unfolded, it began and will end with the new moon...

A tropical depression is spinning in the North Atlantic Ocean. A few days ago, we graduated from the South Atlantic Ocean to the plain...

The last 24 hours have been interesting. After reaching Brazil’s mainland coast, we have been tracking the coast along the continental...

Today, it rained. I know! All day, it was cloudy and rainy. I had this idea that this trip would be epic: sun, big blue skies, and killer...

Sailing. We are now bombing towards the coast of Brazil—specifically a small town on the chart named - Enseada dos Patos. Unfortunately,...

We work in three-day rotations for watch. For two days in a row, you stand watch at night. An 11-2 or a 2-5. We are on our second night...

Fernando. This might start to feel a little overdone - but it was epic It is so different from St Helena but is the same in many ways:...

It is now hot. Like tropics hot. It happened quickly. The passage from St Helena to Fernando took approximately 236:01:08 hours. Although...

Since leaving St Helena, we have been at sea for 170 hours. It is tough to wrap your mind around that amount of time. It’s a lot. We are...

It is hard to say precisely, but based on some rough measurements, we will cross the halfway mark sometime today. And that feels odd....

Today, the smell of the air changed. This happens in the northeast around spring. One day, you walk outside, and it smells and feels...

Please stick with me on this post! Take it slow and steady like a land tortoise Let’s talk about some numbers and facts. Yesterday, we...

Occasionally we say to someone – you know, I was XXX, and it was IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. I will never say that again. As we sail from...

We said goodbye to St Helena today. It deserved a few more days, but this was our window to leave. We are pacing in front of a...

St Helena People who know - know, but not always. When we discussed heading to St Helena as our first stop on this trip, people...

Last night, at about 3 a.m., we rounded the corner to St Helena. The last 20 kn seemed to take forever. Often, the expression X marks the...

Today, we are waiting for the world to jibe. There is something odd about sailing, specifically in the dark. I could only compare it to...

We are still banking on the wind to shift. We have been hoping it would be coming around more from the east. We are heading to an island...

It was a busy day. Things break. The boat is under incredible stress—we can see it as we measured the loads on all the sails. But we did...