Kailani

Kailani is a Deerfoot 63 designed by Steve Dashew and built by Salthouse Brothers in New Zealand in 1990. With a waterline of 60' she is fast as well as sea kindly and safe. She has spent her life under four previous owners in the Caribbean, the Great Lakes and east coast of the USA and the Med where her current owners purchased her in 2010. She is now home to Harley, Jennifer and daughter Sophia.

For detailed blogs and photos see our website www.LaughterJourney.com

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Posted: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 - 02:33

DAY 23 898 nm to Grenanda. Stbd broad reach sgl rf main and ataysail, 9.2kts at 290T. Early this morning the wind picked up to 25-28 kts and Kailani got to barreling along at 10-11 kts with surfs up

Posted: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 - 01:51

DAY 22 1108 nm to Grenanda. Stbd broad reach sgl rf main and jib, 8.2kts at 290T. Each morning at the tail end of his wee hour watch as the sun comes up Harley puts into the oven our daily loaf of

Posted: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 - 01:42

DAY 21 1301 nm to Grenanda. Stbd broad reach sgl rf main and jib, 6.2kts at 285T. To mark yet another milestone, we are now further north than we have been since 2012. We have sailed almost

Posted: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 - 01:36

DAY 20 1483 nm to Grenanda. Stbd broad reach sgl rf main and stay sail, 7.5kts at 275T. We think we celebrated clearing the convergence zone a bit early as the sea, sky and wind look pretty much

Posted: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 - 02:54

DAY 19 1560 nm to Barbados. Stbd broad reach sgl rf main and jib, 7.1 kts at 285T. Fingers crossed, the ITCZ and its nasty weather are in our wake. The NE trades still have a lot of north in them

Posted: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 - 01:18

DAY 18 1724 nm to Barbados. Stbd beam reach sgl rf main and jib, 8.6kts at 275T. This convergence zone still has a mighty strong hold on us, as we have battled high winds and seas for 42 hours now

Posted: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 - 04:36

DAY 17 1863 nm to Barbados. Stbd broad reach sgl rf main and jib, 15kts at 100T. As promised we three spent a celebratory afternoon in the cockpit soaking up the sunshine and light SE winds while

Posted: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 - 01:30

DAY 16 1991 nm to Barbados. Stbd beam reach sgl rf main and Code zero, 5.3kts at 015T. After a little over 4 hours of battling with the Code zero sail, we finally got it deployed late yesterday

Posted: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 - 01:57

DAY 15 2047 nm to Barbados. Stbd beam reach sgl rf main and jib, 3.8kts at 318T. After motor sailing for 20 hours starting yesterday afternoon, 8-10 kts of wind filled in this morning so we decided

Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 - 00:15

DAY 14 2201 nm to Barbados. Stbd wing and wing DDW sgl rf main and poled out jib, 6.0kts at 318T. We've benefited from squalls starting early this morning which gave us both favorable wind of 18-20

Posted: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 - 00:24

DAY 13 2300 nm to Barbados. Stbd wing and wing DDW sgl rf main and poled out jib, 6.0kts at 318T. The bird battles continued last night, with renewed intensity by both sides. The birds increased

Posted: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 - 00:21

DAY 12 2415 nm to Barbados. Stbd wing and wing DDW sgl rf main and poled out jib, 5.0kts at 335T. Well, our love affair with the stargazing was rudely interrupted last night when some sea birds

Posted: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 - 00:06

DAY 11 2525 nm to Barbados. Stbd wing and wing DDW sgl rf main and poled out jib, 7.0kts at 300T. We are absolutely loving these fabled "fair winds and following seas" ... such rarefied conditions

Posted: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 - 00:45

DAY 10 2654 nm to Barbados. Stbd wing and wing DDW sgl rf main and poled out jib, 6.3kts at 296T. Loving making some miles. A slight waning in the wind in the wee hours made us a little worried

Posted: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 - 00:09

DAY 9 2782 nm to Barbados. Stbd wing and wing DDW sgl rf main and poled out jib, 5.8kts at 297T. Beautiful light wind sailing last night, and we took delight in the stars, even though on one tack

Posted: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 - 00:12

DAY 8 2852 nm to Barbados. Stbd beam reach sgl rf main and jib, 4.3kts at 346T. Another gorgeous day, hot and very little wind. We "chased" comfort for the last 24 hours, foregoing VMG, instead

Posted: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 - 02:00

DAY 7 2913 nm to Barbados. Port beam reach sgl rf main and jib, 5.5kts at 258T. Gorgeous weather here in the light trade winds. Celebration today for going under 3000nm to go - mango lassie and

Posted: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 - 00:06

DAY 6 3044 nm to Barbados. Sailing port broad reach, Jib only, 6.5kts at 279T. Wind settled in at a more steady 15-20kts last night so we doused the Code zero and deployed the jib. Running with the

Posted: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 - 00:03

DAY 4 3302 nm to Barbados. Sailing stbd broad reach, Code Zero 5.8kt at 298T. Just easing our way along, non eventful and peaceful sailing out here in the S Atlantic. As we approach the equator it

Posted: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 - 00:06

DAY 3 3418 nm to Barbados. Sailing stbd broad reach, Code Zero 4.8kt at 295T. Yesterday afternoon the wind filled in to 8kts from the SSE, allowing us to go back to Code zero sailing. Sophia took

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