We’re heading west on the trade wind express! After a frustrating afternoon of light and shifty breezes clocking from south to north, a steady breeze from the north-northeast filled in just before happy hour. We set a shy kite, our 2.2 oz symmetrical spinnaker, and have been close reaching on the great circle route to [...]
The trade winds stopped trading yesterday afternoon and we have been slowly but steadily working our way through (hopefully) the last patch of light and variable winds before we can get on the westbound train to Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. The breeze has mostly been in single digits for the past 24 hours, slowly clocking [...]
The trade winds remain fickle. In the last 24 hours, wind speeds have ranged from less than one knot to a peak of 30 knots and have come from almost every direction. The MooCrew have been working very hard trimming, tweaking and changing sails in order to keep the boat moving toward St. Lucia without [...]
After ten days of clawing our way southward, we’ve finally found the trade winds. We’ve given up on trying to better Moonshadow’s last ARC Rally time of just under 14 days and now are just shooting to beat Christopher Columbus’ best time of 21 days for the trans-Atlantic passage. Most of yesterday and last night [...]
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