Pacific Passage Statistics
Total Distance Traveled:
3001 miles
Great Circle Distance:
2941 Miles
Days Underway
21
Average Speed
6 knots
Route: West down 1 degree south. Turn south west
at about 112 degrees west.
Strategy: Take it easy on the crew. Minimize waves,
maximize current.
Daily Runs: Best Daily-192 Average-150 Worst-113
Engines: Hours Motoring-34 Hours charging-168 Fuel Used-38 Gallons
Sail Repairs: Mainsails: Blew out three slides at head.
Genoa Repairs: De-lamination and holes at tack and along the foot.
Spinnaker Repairs: Numerous small tears.
Reefs used
1st and 2nd
% of time main sail reefed
70%
Weather:
Windspeed in knots: Average-14 Low-0 Highest-28
Wind direction
Mostly south east, oscillating to east &
north east
Days with rain
3
Average temperature
28C
Watch Schedule
3 on 3 off, round the clock
Hardest working crewmember
Vasco (Our ComNav autopilot)
Winner of the Mustang Sally Trip Lottery-Rae
Fishing: Expensive lures lost-6 Lures Manufactured-6 Fish caught-2
Cost per fish roughly $40
Below are some of the best and worst things about our first major off shore
passage - Rae's on the left, Sharon's on the right.
Mobile browsers struggle to present table based data so you might be challenged to read, but I think you can likely fugure it out.
Voyage Highlight
Sailing the south Pacific
Getting back to land
Worst moment
Running out of chocolate
Realizing no one was going to beam me up
Funniest thing
Sailing backwards, in irons at 2:00 AM
Playing the "Would you rather" game
Trip Mantra
Giddy up Mustang Sally
This is only uncomfortable, NOT dangerous
Best Book
The Hummingbirds Daughter
The Hummingbirds Daughter
Favorite sight
The stars in the southern sky
Finally seeing land
Favorite Saying
Arrrh
Passage making is like being in prison with the possibility of drowning
