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Return Delivery

return tracker rental was a paid option on the original jibeset registration. Both boats making good time as of today.
 
pogen said:
return tracker rental was a paid option on the original jibeset registration. Both boats making good time as of today.
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I suspect Mike paid but didn't pay attention. I clipped it off as soon as he got there. Oh well.
Mouton Noir reports Seazed Asset is have auto pilot problems. Evidently the clutch won't engage. At least that's what it sounded like he said. Hand steering. Hope they get it fixed.

Susan
 
Temerity has overcome Seazed Asset's East and North lead, and is now about 40 nm north of Seazed. They are about 600 nm due north of Kauai, still heading up to go over the High. Here are a few recent communications...

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All seems ok. Slow going. Weather looking ugly if the high stays north.
Winds below 25 so far.

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Race on, we are chasing Seazed.

Michael left same day we did. He has 300+ gallons of fuel and is using
it all. He is about 60 miles ahead as of last night. We did a VHF to SSB
through Eliz. Ann last night.
 
DaveH said:
yes, he is returning Temerity

DH
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I spoke to Brian on VHF as I passed him coming out of Nawiliwili. He said he had a crew of two in addition to himself. Looking good when I passed by.

Hopefully they didn't run into the Navy like I did coming around Kahala Point. It was raining with visibility of about 1/4 mile. A coastie comes up on VHF warning me to stay at least a mile away from the Navy ships. I was trying to be courteous but I couldn't see a mile and certainly could not see any Navy ships to stay a mile away from. There was no AIS so I kinda played cat and mouse with them for awhile.

Its funny to see a little old Coast Guard cutter protecting the big bad Navy ships from us inconvenient Citizens. Apparently there was some protest activity regarding the RIMPAC exercises so maybe they were on the lookout for protesters.

Anyone see this Rimpac video? Pretty impressive although God forbid you got caught in the middle of that. I can hear Mike Jefferson on the VHF: "Make a hole people, I am a sailing vessel under sail with limited maneuverability!!" ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GddhlktmJ-A
 
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Well the freighters are very cooperative about diverting course if they are anywhere near you.

TEMERITY and SEAZED are both at near 40N now, just starting to get some East in the courses.

Today's report from Temerity:

No big news. Sailed on Pelagic wind mode for the last 15 hours. WOrks
fine with your wind instruments. NEver have to touch the sheets or alter
course manually as we sail along with an AWA = 45-50. m\V GLobal Lag
sailed by at 0545 with a CPA of 4 miles. She altered course a tad to avoid.

Winds steady at about 12. Have been sailing with the #3 and sometimes a
reef, or not, in the main for this entire trip. Likely the bottom paint
on the port side is worn off from so much use.
 
mike cunningham said:
I can hear Mike Jefferson on the VHF: "Make a hole people, I am a sailing vessel under sail with limited maneuverability!!" ;)
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I find the twin anchors on Mike's bow pretty intimidating, even the Navy wouldn't like their paint scratched.
 
pogen said:
I find the twin anchors on Mike's bow pretty intimidating, even the Navy wouldn't like their paint scratched.
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Mouton Noir only has limited manuverability around docks. The designer of Garcias's, upon hearing complaints retorted "it's designed for the ocean, not docks".

And it doesn't carry 300 + gallons. Only about 220'and then 8 jugs we filled. A lot was used for power on the way over since the sun didn't cooperate. :p

Yes the anchors could cause some damage. We won't talk about our docking in Comox up in B C.
But I'm still jonesing for a Rockna.

Since Mike shouldn't be complaining about manuerability at sea it'll need to be something else. Ummmm.

Susan
 
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Temerity's Return Trip

This from Brian Boschma on Temerity:

we had been eating backpack food, but I couldn't take it any more. Made a lentil and rice dish with canned chicken and some fresh sauteed onions. Topped that off with a bit of pinot noir, not to be confused with Mouton Noir, who is about 100 miles to the north.

The boat handles the same as mine. I would alter a few things in the kitchen to make cooking safer. It is very painful to cook when on starboard tack upwind, and we have been on starboard for, are you ready, 244 1/2 hours, but who is counting.

We will arrive in GRand hopefully in 9 more days. The weather has been really challenging. We are alomst as far north as the oregon border and going further.
 
Termirity update
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temerity
to me, svmoutonnoir, wdi6622, +1
1 hour agoDetails

1813 PDT Aug 5: 40-48, 149-53
Winds ESE at 10. Course 70T. Seas 2 to 4 and chop. Water temp is down a ggod amount from two days ago. Weather has been less than compliant with our plans. This is the 269 th hour of beating into the wind. A few hours of motoring to date, having consumed 10 gallons of diesel. The gribs keep teasing us with a supposed shift to the NE which would allow us to point at SF, followed by a swing to the N and a reach. We are beginning to believe this is an illusion. If this persists we're headed for Portland.

BB

And this from
John Woodworth on Owl


Yikes. We are facing similar illusions with the trades more north than east. We are still making Commanders waypoints though.
 
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I have a Marine Traffic station on the Delta (#2880) and logged in this morning to have a look at Delta traffic. I noticed much broader pacific coverage that I had seen previously. Apparently Marine Traffic is acquiring AIS signals via satellite. Maybe this has been going on for awhile but I had not seen it before.

In any event they charge extra for vessel names and data they are tracking via satellite but a couple of the targets look suspiciously like our Temerity, Seized Asset, Mouton Noir. Owl and so on. The positions seem to match up pretty well.
 
More from Temerity:

We have had issues. I think I sent that to you. Latest was a torn main and a frozen engine. All repaired at this point, not without a bit of diesel sprayed all over me late last night. We have video on that little episode.

I want to say, the most prized position on this boat is a single cushion. Only one on the entire boat. On it are stenciled the words, "Dura Mater". Thanks for tossing that aboard.
 
Silliness Offshore
or
The Northing of Michael J

By Steve Hodges
Philosopher Poet 04 Aug 2016 rev A

There are strange things done by the Hawaiian sun
To the sailors who sail for the islands and back
The tropical squalls had seen it all
Until the Northing of Michael J

Now, Michael J was from San Jose
But he kept his black boat on the bay
Mighty Mouton Noir, a sheep of y’aar
Had sailed thousands of miles in her day

Michael J and his black solent sloop
Raced to Hawaii in ship-shape dapper style
A regular Ritz with a fresh daily spritz
Was how Michael drew for the Garden Isle

So, after sixteen days underway, Mouton
Dipped her hook in glittering Hanalei Bay
And after a rest, with foulies all pressed,
Michael decided ‘we’ll have no more delay!’

So ‘twas anchor aweigh, let’s sail away!’
And into the trades which blew her forth
With all sails set, Mouton roared like a jet
Leaving a foamy white wake in her spray

The plan for this lamb was to jam North
Until the day San Fran was broadly abeam
Then turn starboard for home and reach
Far East for the golden gateway and bay

Mouton Noir, that sailing sheep of y’aar
Gracefully pulled her hull thru the waves
And when she reached the 38th floor
She, per plan, tugged at her starboard rein

But the Pacific high was not yet nigh
And the skipper needed his fix
So he held his resolve and continued
The plod to the North, oh! so far away!

The Pacific high, in cahoots with the sky
Kept slipping ‘neath the horizon’s veil
And thus Mouton was compelled to sail
Into the teeth of the fabled alley of gale

Northern winds are cold and wail
Screeching thru any ship’s riggings
But the crew of the good bovine ship
Stoically withheld their dip misgivings

And so they sailed on with fears un-availed
Into the cold water and long days of the North
Expecting all awhile to be tossed like hay baled
With nothing to save them but raw cabbage

But even two salty heads asea on a sled
Faced chipping ice with deeply felt dread
That chore wore their Cally blood cold
Inspiring a new sailing plan, less bold

‘Twas the sight of a white ‘bergs afloe
Caused Mouton’s Northing to slow
And, to the relief of her chilled crew
Her mutton bow to the south drew

And so with wave froth lapping her derriere
Mouton, sailed hard on the billowing air,
And, bringing relief to dear reader’s ear,
Her muse will now trade his pen for a beer

(With a nod to Service and apology to Sam McGee)
 
4 am 080716

Weather was the usual beat to the NE. We are closing in on Seattle but our goal has been San Francisco. The weather guru's are saying all should get better as the HP system descends below us and the wind shift to the N - NE. We are at 41-37N 147-39W. That elusive forecast is always 24 hours away.

The delivery main, AKA old racing main, decided to tear from luff the leech in the 15 kt breeze. On went the new racing main.

The evening was capped by a failing engine. After an hour of diagnosis we found water in the fuel. Drained that, bled the system, managed to over pressurize a RACOR seal and spray fuel all over the mechanic and assistant. It all started running again and we will keep an eye out for more water contamination.

Winds are light tonight, temps are cooling. Hoping for some downwind sailing someday.
 
This from Seazed Asset: Please don't try to contact him. Batteries are very low.

Hi,

The water pump is NOT repairable, sad to say.

We have been sailing only from Friday and now the rest of the way home. We have no way to charge the batteries and shut all non needed items down. We are saving some juice for the SSB, every three days and the GPS.

Conditions have been light but good. Made progress every day. We will be turning more for SF today. I just called Commanders Weather and asked for a three day routing. Looks like we will go a bit more east, to catch the N winds. That should happen about 140 W.

We have plenty of food and water and boat is sailing well.

Do NOT email back. I need to save batteries for Commanders Weather routing.

Position as of 1200 PDT 44 48N 144 34W

Vance and Steve
 
The Pinnacle map and the individual DeLorme maps are showing strangely different locations for some of the boats -- it looks like that SEAZED and TEMERITY are now about 1000 nm from the Gate though, so if the winds are at all kind we might see them back in 7 days.
 
From Temerity August 7
2025 PDT 41-45, 143-15. SOG 5 kts. Wind zero. Swell mostly ship wakes.

At this moment there are 7 ships on the AIS within a 20 mile radius. We have been averaging 3 a day for the past two to three days. This is like the Santa Barbara beach on a Saturday.

Events: Caught 18 lb tuna at 10 am on home made lure. Went swimming. Repaired temp sensor on engine. Poorly seated push on connector on new sensor. Bird has be friended us and is hanging out on poop deck. Settling in with big tuna fillets for dinner.

To follow Seazed Asset and Temerity go here: http://www.pinnacletracking.com/live/Map.aspx?shtp
 
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