Temerity report July 25
After destroying our jibtop by flogging it downwind, we have been sailing bald headed for a while and it is slow. We were reluctant to set the twins on a pole because of all the rolling due to the...
View ArticleAutopilot kaput
Some bad news this afternoon. We damaged our autopilot ram, so it will be hand steering all the way in. Presently 900 nm from finish. Ugh.
View ArticleIf Fast is Fun, what is Slow?
We are getting tired of going slow, and are worried abut making the parties now! So we spent today’s work time on trying to get the Twins to work properly in a way that doesn’t get anyone killed. We...
View ArticleNo Strings in the Night
Late last night we were quite close to another boat, which I thought might be TESA but turns out to have been No Strings Attached. Had I known I would have hailed them on Ch 16, as skipper Nick is a...
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Twins/No Twins
We spent a lot of time yesterday getting the twins-on-pole finally sorted, but did not begin flying in earnest until about 7 PM. The challenge had been to come up with a scheme that let one set the...
View ArticleDDW
Yesterday afternoon the wind swung around to DDW again, so after our nice reaching we were again deep running with only the #2 up. The last three days runs of CMG are 135nm, 150nm and 136nm. Last night...
View ArticleDDW
Yesterday afternoon the wind swung around to DDW again, so after our nice reaching we were again deep running with only the #2 up. The last three days runs of CMG are 135nm, 150nm and 136nm. Last night...
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Yesterday afternoon the wind swung around to DDW again, so after our nice reaching we were again deep running with only the #2 up. The last three days runs of CMG are 135nm, 150nm and 136nm. Last night...
View ArticleFishing Report
Yesterday we went after some Mahi for dinner, and had immediate success of a sort. After trolling just 10 min with the jet-head cedar plug we got a strike, a big Mahi, but then as we were pulling him...
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Temerity wins the “Race to the Start Line”
I’m very pleased that tonight at the Pac Cup awards ceremony, Temerity won the prize for the “Best Prepared Yacht”. This honor was certainly unexpected, but I was very proud and glad to receive it, as...
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Belated post about our finish
As followers of the Pac Cup will have realized long since, we finished at 31 Jul 2012 17:18:59 HST with an elapsed time of 15d 07:03:59, the better part of two days behind our Division winner Naos 30....
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Pacific Cup 2012 Gallery of Misc Pics
We didn’t take all that many pictures on our Pac Cup adventure; as usual we were too busy sailing! Here is a big collection of all the pics that did not make it into the blog on the first go-around.
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Home now
Temerity is at last home from Hawaii and put back together, modulo putting on the main, a few minor electrical repairs, and some black marks on the port topsides. I’ve spent the last couple of...
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Shipping
A pic I just found in my email of Temerity at the Matson yard in Honolulu preparatory for shipping.
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