N 43 00.309, W132 13.163

Heading at 217 degrees.

wind south11-13. We all took showers today!

dusty is cooking and Nikki is asleep.

thanks for the frequencies

Devon

Weather is fine...boat is moving fast!

Here is Devons email from last night.


"hi dad
high winds in morning finally calmed to 15 knots. We sailed all day using reacher and storm jib as well as a 3rd reef in the mainsail all day.

Speed is in the 6-7 knot range.

We are at 45 23'907N 132 46'308
and heading 233 degrees

what is BBC broad cast mhz?.
Any other freq of interest for the HF radio.

love Devon

ps for the blog

you can send an email to the boat at blazesail@gmail.com

no fotos or attachements please....

making progress!!

the waves and wind have calmed. reacher stay sail and full main
all is well 45 58'335 130 16'599 hd 230

Devon

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The boat moved 161 NM in the last 24 hours...that is sailing fast!

35 Knot winds helped a bit.

position report Tuesday 7/10/07

47 12.413 N
127 39.895

at 17:00 PDT
wind is from N west at 30-35
seas are 8 feet
using double reefed mainsail and storm jib..

yep....it's a quite a ride
see http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/quikscat/index.html

expected to blow all night and subside Wed AM

spoke on Sat phone with Devon....all iswell...nobody is sick....everything is fine..."Kinda scary"

They are on the way.

Position report on July 9, 2007 at 18:00 PDT is

N48 06.188, W126 11.900

Cut and paste into

http://www.earth.google.com/

wind speed is twelve knots from the N west.

the forecast is

TODAY

N WIND 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. NW SWELL 6 FTAT 8 SECONDS.

TONIGHT
N WIND 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. NW SWELL6 FT AT 8 SECONDS.
WED

NE WIND 10 TO 20 KT...BECOMING NW IN THE AFTERNOON. WINDWAVES 1 TO 3 FT. W SWELL 6 FT AT 8 SECONDS.

Getting ready to leave, Mike and the 2007 transapc.

All the gear is aboard. The last spares and provisions are going aboard today. Final banking is being done....time to close the accounts.

Water and fuel is topped off. Charts are aboard. (Hard copies....not electronic LOL)

Including tide tables of the South pacific, Sailing directions, SoPac flags and Chart #1.

There is even a real working sextant aboard....thanks Mike aboard the M\V Captn MJ Sousa.

Mike is hoping to meet Devon and Crew at Christmas Island. He also serves as the SSB radio test link and secondary sat comm link. Mike's knowledge of the South Pacific (30 plus years) should be a big help next month. Devon previously served as a deckhand and engineers assistant on Mike's boat for about 10 months. The MJ Sousa fishes for tuna in SoPAc and NZ waters.

The famous Transpac sail boat race start on July 9, 2007 (same damn day!) and head for the Big Island. http://www.transpacificyc.org/

they have good weather links for the area Blaze is sailing

Blaze should arrive in Kauai about the same time this race finishes in Honolulu.

before the sea trial

canned goods labled and logged in lockers
decks about to be cleared.



lotsa gear to stow away