Report from Sailing Vessel VALIS Noon July 20 to Noon July 21 Current position: Lat 24deg 17.52min, Lon 143deg 12.64min Heading 254 deg magnetic, speed 6.8 knots (7 knots through the water). Distance run since Noon yesterday: 164 nautical miles, which is an average run for us. One more day sailing with the poled-out jib […]

Report from Sailing Vessel VALIS Noon July 19 to Noon July 20 Current position: Lat 24deg 49.15min, Lon 140deg 15.19min Heading 248 deg magnetic, speed 7.2 knots (7.8 knots through the water). Distance run since Noon yesterday: 174 nautical miles, which is our second-best run to date. Yesterday we continued to run with the poled-out […]

Report from Sailing Vessel VALIS, Noon July 18 to Noon July 19 Current position: Lat 24deg 51.67min, Lon 137deg 03.13min Heading 253 deg magnetic, speed 7 knots (8 knots through the water). Distance run since Noon yesterday: 160 nautical miles As promised, yesterday afternoon we jibed over towards Maui. We ran all night with a […]

Greetings from Andrew, Daniel, Jim, and Paul: Daily runs from the log of the VALIS: July 15-16 Noon: 184 Nautical miles on the log (through the water), 154 NM via GPS (point-to-point over the ground). Position at July 16 Noon was Lat 29deg 38min, Lon 131deg 122min. July 16-17 Noon: 163 NM log, 144 NM […]

July 15 Hi Folks For Your Information – We take navigation measurements at Noon each day during this trip to Hawaii. They are the distance traveled in the 24 hours from noon one day to the previous day. This is measured in two ways. 1. The Log, a little paddle wheel that spins around as […]

July 14 HI to ALL Current position at 09:00 PDT is Lat N 33deg 08min, Lon W 126deg 03min You can follow our position on the internet www.optitecture.com and clicking on position report and other links. Don’t worry if you don’t see our reports, though. There seems to be a problem with the way we […]

Sat 7/12/2003 5:04 PM It is now about 6:00 PM and we are approx 20 miles offshore, between Half Moon Bay and Pescadero (lat 37 deg 27 min, longitude 122 deg 47 min). It is foggy, but we are sailing fast. We were averaging between 8 and 9 knots after turning south from the GG […]