Report from VALIS – Sept 10 – Back Home On Sept 10, 10:00 AM PST, VALIS arrived in Sausalito and is now tied up in her regular slip. This completes our 20-day passage from Kauai. We are all well and in good spirits, happy to be home, but grateful for an incredible voyage. Our last […]

Report from VALIS – Sept 9 At 4:00 PM, PDT, VALIS is at latitude 38 deg 11 min north, longitude 124 degrees 36 minutes west — about 100 nautical miles from San Francisco. We are sailing west-southwest at a speed of just under seven knots. Winds are from the north at 17 knots. At this […]

Report from VALIS – Sept 7-8 As of 7:30 PM Monday, Sept 8, VALIS is at latitude 38 deg 45 min north, Longitude 127 deg 11 min west, about 235 miles from our slip in Sausalito. We expect to arrive sometime Wednesday. At the moment, we are sailing at 6 knots under our asymmetrical spinnaker, […]

Report from VALIS – Sept 6 At 5:30 PM, Saturday, Sept 6, VALIS is at latitude 39 deg 26 min north, longitude 133 min 26 min north. We are sailing due east at a speed of 6.6 knots over the ground. The wind is from the north west at 16 knots, and the seas are […]

Report from VALIS – Sept 5 As of 2:00 PM PDT, VALIS was at latitude 39deg 47min north, longitude 137deg 02min west, and sailing due east at a speed of 8.2 knots (over the ground). Winds are from the southwest at 21 knots. We are sailing under reefed main, full jib and stays’l. The weather […]

Report from VALIS – Sept 3/4 As of Noon today (Sept 4), VALIS was at latitude 39deg 47min N, Lon 141deg 04min W, sailing due east at a speed of 7.2 knots over the ground. Winds are from the southwest at 17 knots, seas are from the southwest at 3 feet. We have had two […]

Report from VALIS – Sept 1/2 (our last report was Aug 30/31) As of Sept 2, 6:30 PM PDT, our position was latitude 39 deg 44 min north, longitude 147 deg 24 min west. Our course is north east, and our speed is about 7 knots. The wind is from the south west, at about […]

Report from VALIS – Aug 30/31 Greetings from VALIS and its happy crew. As of 10:00 PM we are at latitude 38 deg 23 min north, longitude 152 deg 22 min west. We are sailing northeast at about seven knots. Winds are from the southeast at 18 knots, and seas are from the southeast at […]

Report from VALIS – Aug 29/30 As of 9:00 PM, PDT, VALIS is at lat 36deg 09min, lon 153deg 53min, sailing due north at 6 knots. Winds are from the southeast at 13 knots. Seas are from the southeast at 2 feet. As the sun set last night, we were sailing very slowly towards the […]

Report from VALIS – Aug 28/29 As of Friday, Aug 29, 12:00 Noon PDT, VALIS was as lat 34deg 34min north, lon 154deg 24min west. We are sailing on northeasterly course at a speed of about 5 knots. The wind is from the north at about 10 kts, and the seas are about 2 ft […]