A happy Pegasus Pack. A fantastic adventure. With an astounding 403 Nautical Miles in 24 hours! We at Pegasus-MotionX tried to share the adventure with all of you and give you a feel for that a fantastic sport offshore sailing is. The last great adventure!
Hawaii Magic, lush, warm not hot, soft, best surfing, trades blowing every day!
FaceTime from the middle of the Pacific. Arthur and Peter, my MotionX colleagues are in the office in Santa Cruz, California and get video-taped doing FaceTime between Pete’s iPhone 4 in Santa Cruz and my iPhone 4 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean one of the most isolated spots in the world. When it…
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 013 Date: Jul 17, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 17.3 kts Current Course: 215ºT Distance since last update: 183 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 212 nm Bearing to Finish: 244ºT Location: Latitude:…
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 012 Date: Jul 16, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 16.5 kts Current Course: 208ºT Distance since last update: 152 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 377 nm Bearing to Finish: 229ºT Location: Latitude:…
Crusty’s stitches: Crusty and I are both paramedic trained and stay current. Crusty insisted in stitching up his left index with his own right hand. After three days, the stitches are a bit loose, but it’s clean without an infection. So we’re just going to dress it up.
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 011 Date: Jul 16, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.3 kts Current Course: 205ºM Distance since last update: 161 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 527 nm Bearing to Finish: 221ºM Location: Latitude:…
Yes, we had to do another rig check. And this time Zan took his iPhone with him and got us this fantastic footage. You can see the rig, the sail, the deck. Gilesy is in black tailing the halyard that keeps Zan in the air and yours truly is steering the boat as steadily as…
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 010 Date: Jul 15, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 15.3 kts Current Course: 203ºM Distance since last update: 177 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 681 nm Bearing to Finish: 217ºM Location: Latitude:…
Speed Demons, Squalls everywhere…. Entering a fun part of the race. We’ve positioned ourselves to use the energy of a line of strong squalls giving us up to 33 knots of wind with a high heading on port jibe. Straight to the mark. Either something will give or we will get there fast. Beautiful ride.
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 009 Date: Jul 15, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.8 kts Current Course: 208ºM Distance since last update: 180 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 854 nm Bearing to Finish: 214ºM Location: Latitude:…
Strategy update: Here is an annotated chart that shows what we are trying to achieve. We want to stay in 20 knots of pressure if we can all the way to Honolulu. We are willing to sail extra distance for that. The star is where we are now. The red line is our proposed trajectory.
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 008 Date: Jul 14, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.6 kts Current Course: 198ºM Distance since last update: 146 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,029 nm Bearing to Finish: 212ºM Location: Latitude:…
Blood oranges, three stiches, trash in our oceans… Every one is fine and sailing fast!
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 007 Date: Jul 14, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 16.7 kts Current Course: 273ºM Distance since last update: 154 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,161 nm Bearing to Finish: 217ºM Location: Latitude:…
When we jibed we realized that something was wrong with our mast. Putting a mate up 75 feet above the deck (yes our rig is gigantic for a 50 foot boat!) is taking their life in your hands when it is blowing 25+ with 30+ foot waves. It takes a lot of mutual trust and…
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 006 Date: Jul 13, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.6 kts Current Course: 192ºM Distance since last update: 197 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,313 nm Bearing to Finish: 219ºM Location: Latitude:…
Wow! We broke the IMOCA Open 50 24 hour record: We did 403+ Nautical Miles. This is really impressive because we broke that record by close to 80 nautical miles and the 400 mile mark was a huge unattainable barrier for a long time on sailboats of any size. We knew it was a fast…
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 005 Date: Jul 13, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 15.7 kts Current Course: 252ºM Distance since last update: 203 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,485 nm Bearing to Finish: 224ºM Location: Latitude:…
It’s howling, and a giant surfing roller-coaster. Quite awesome.