Thursday, July 14, 2016

At Sea!

Friends and Family-

Well, as predicted it was a wet, rough and wild first couple of days at sea! We are a little bit over 400nm into our trip, with about 1600nm to go. The great news is everybody is safe and has found their sea legs. Now we can focus on racing and closing the ground between us and our competition.

Thanks to everyone that sent us off from South Beach Marina and cheered us on from St Francis Yacht Club and the shores of SF on Wednesday. We could hear you and it meant a ton to all of us!

In the rough and tumble first days unfortunately our primary comms laptop (which was advertised to be "Tough") failed on us, but we have gotten our backup computer running. Good thing we built in redundancies to our communications plan! We are also able to monitor our Gmail account again.

Attached is a picture of us flying the spinnaker!

The Bullet Crew

5 comments:

  1. Was great seeing you off. Sounds like others have also had to get their sea legs. Watching your track closely, virtually, and with excitement. Enjoy the challenge and adventure!

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  2. Looks like there was a snapped mast in the 25 knot winds, on Psyche. They lashed it down and dropped sail before it could topple, and made it back to Monterey fine.
    Velocity had her anchor locker flood and overflow into freshwater tank vents and withdrew, too.
    Good job having NOTHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN.
    Keep it up, it looks like you are in a close-running division. I have faith.

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