Date: Monday, July 7th Time: 05:05 PST Boat Speed: 16knots Course: 220 degrees Wind Speed: 24 knots It’s fast and crisp sailing, although wet and cold. The wind is down 5 knots. Our first quarter moon has set and the sun is about to rise. When it bounces hard like this right into an offshore race, lots of lunches…
Date: Monday, July 7th Time: 00:05 PST Boat Speed: 14.1 knots Course: 220 degrees Wind Speed: 29 knots The transition to the strong offshore winds came abruptly. Both boats are now on starboard tack and we’re going into the wind in a big seaway. We are carrying two reefs and waves are breaking over the boat. It’s cold, wet…
We started in a Catalina eddy. That means that a local low pressure is stationed around the Santa Catalina Island and that the winds turn counter-clockwise in the LA basin. So the start was in a Southerly wind that would gradually shift right. We started in 4 knots of wind. We started to leeward of…
Crusty (Mark Christensen) has done a great job during the last 6 months managing the Transpac efforts, among other projects. We must remember that the logistics in successfully campaigning a state-of-the-art 77 feet offshore racer are extremely complex. But then we can’t lose sight of racing. With Pegasus Racing, we race all the time. We…
Crusty (Mark Christensen) has done a great job during the last 6 months managing the Transpac efforts, among other projects. We must remember that the logistics in successfully campaigning a state-of-the-art 77 feet offshore racer are extremely complex. But then we can’t lose sight of racing. With Pegasus Racing, we race all the time. We…
Today is big crunch time for working on our weather tactics. Here is a summary of what we know and our competitor probably knows too. There is a possibility that a tropical disturbance may be headed our way from Mexico, two days into the race. That’s what the forecasts say. It could be a hurricane,…
Happy 4th of July. For the team at Pegasus Racing, its a lot of focus and work on Friday, July 4th. That’s because we decided to get it all done and give the whole team Saturday the 5th off. Time to relax and get psyched up for the big event. Just like a big exam,…