Greetings from California! We just sailed past Pt. St. George (near Crescent City) and have entered California waters. It’s been a rip-roarin’ day, with high wind and seas as we passed Cape Blanco (Oregon) this morning. We were about 50 miles offshore and the wind, instead of the predicted 25-30 kts, was well over 40. […]

Good morning! VALIS is sailing well, and all are in good spirits (or asleep). At 8:55AM PDT our position is: Lat 43d 28.6m N, Lon 124d 38.1m W. We are sailing at about 7.5 kts on a course of 175 deg mag. Early this morning we had come as close to land as we wanted […]

Good evening from VALIS. We’ve had a great day of sailing, and the crew is feeling good. We have decided that rather than sail offshore 50-100 miles as originally planned, the near-shore weather will be much more comfortable as we sail to San Francisco. So, at 10:15 AM we jibed and are now sailing a […]

June 3, 8:45AM lat: 45d, 25.2m N, lon: 126d 16.6m W SOG: 7.8 kts, COG 175 d mag It’s morning on VALIS, but the sky is grey, and it’s cold here. Of course, we’ve been used to that for the last several days. The wind has moderated for now, and is blowing about 25 kts. […]

This morning around 9:00, the wind picked up and we were able shut down the diesel. It started gently, about ten knots, and has increased into the high twenties, with occasional gusts ov 30 kts. This is what we were expecting. The seas are perhaps ten feet from the NNW (as is the wind), and […]

VALIS missed her first radio check this morning. Sorry, I was working out the bugs in our watch system and just forgot. Tonight at 8:00PM I promise we will be on the air. The good news is that we found the wind and are sailing — boatspeed is 8 kts @ 160 degrees Mag. Regards, […]

Good morning from VALIS! Time: 7:00AM, June 2 Position: 48d 18.6m N, 125d, 15.5m W Course: 220d Magnetic, Speed: 4.2 kts Motoring in very light wind. The VALIS crew had a nice, but noisy, night. We motored out the Strait, and early this morning passed Tattosh Island and buoy R2, entering the great Pacific. As […]

Sunday, June 1 2014 We are on our way! We left the Friday Harbor dock at about 10:45AM, and then we left it again at 11:00 (we had forgotten someones boots). We caught a favorable current through Cattle pass, and are now steering toward Race Rocks. Next stop, San Francisco! Crew is Paul (me), Rich, […]

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Lat+48.500883 Lon-123.020533 Alt +16 ft (1s ago) 26-May-2014 22:19:34 UTC http://map.iridium.com/m?lat=48.500883&lon=-123.020533