Neptune's Highway

Bruce and Laura have been sailing together for 30 years, mostly in the Caribbean but including New England and western Mediterranean. They purchased Pacific Hwy, a Davidson 44 sloop, in California in April 2012, did the 2012 Baja Haha to Mexico and the 2013 Puddle Jump to the South Pacific. Our plan for the 2016 season: Sail from Australia to New Caledonia. Visit Vanuatu and Solomons and continue on to Palau. 2017, Indonesia. 2018 Haulout and refit in Malaysia. Planning to cross the Indian Ocean in 2019! Oh! And since we're leaving the Pacific behind, we've changed our name to Neptune's Highway!

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Posted: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 - 07:45

Tuesday, January 28, 6:30pm Zulu Really gorgeous day today. Hope for the same tomorrow as it will be such a nice way to end the passage. Last night winds were light and fickle so we dropped sail and

Posted: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 - 07:18

Monday, January 27, 6 Still sailing wing and wing but jibed over to Port tack about 2 hours ago. The cook likes port tack because everything slides toward the back splash, whereas on starboard tack

Posted: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 - 06:24

Sunday, January 26, 17:15 UTC. So, for anyone paying attention to yesterday's post about time zones, I am now posting Zulu time, which sounds African, but is actually the time in St. Helena and

Posted: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 - 11:18

Saturday, January 25, 11:30 pm Almost forgot to post a position report today! It's almost midnight, so better get to it. Or is it (almost midnight). Time. We are racing towards 0 degrees longitude

Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 - 22:42

Friday, January 24, 11:30 am We had another peaceful, starry night last night. No moon on this passage! Light breeze but we are still averaging 6.5 kts boat speed. Every morning the wind has died for

Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 - 02:54

Thursday, January 23, 3:30 pm local time We've been hoping the South Atlantic would be an easy ride and so far she hasn't disappointed. We continue to have a light breeze on the beam and flat seas

Posted: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 - 04:06

Wednesday January 22, 5:00 pm Happy hour and we are happy! We've had a gorgeous, sunny day and this afternoon we've had 12 knots true on the beam and are cruising along at 7 kts! This morning the

Posted: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 - 03:30

Tuesday, January 21, 4:00pm We are once again under way with 20 knots on the beam, We are sailing NW on port tack slightly off wind of our rhum line but Bruce says gentle people don't sail to

Posted: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 - 06:15

Thursday, January 16, 7:00 pm local time. We arrived in Walvis Bay this morning. Last night we took down all the sails since we only had about 50 miles to go and needed to slow down. We still

Posted: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 - 02:27

Wednesday, January 15, 15:00 local time Last night we had 24-30 knots of wind behind us and some pretty big seas. This only lasted about 5 hours and then it settled down to a more comfortable 16-19

Posted: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 - 05:09

(this post from our first day out didn't send so I am re-posting) Saturday , Jan. 11, 2020 1100UTC We left Capetown early this morning in a pea soup fog and glassy seas. This coastline heats up in

Posted: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 - 05:06

Tuesday, January 13, 7:00pm Still cruising along downwind with sails wing and wing. Yesterday we passed through a fleet of dredgers off the Orange River, which is the border between South Africa and

Posted: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 - 02:24

Monday, January 13, 2:00 pm We have crossed the line into Namibian waters. So far, an easy downwind trip (which means we are eating way too well - I count on these offshore trips to cut down!). Still

Posted: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 - 23:54

Sunday, January 5, 2020 We left Simon's Town yesterday and (finally) motor sailed past the Cape of Good Hope. We are now in Cape Town at the Royal Cape Yacht Club. Sounds elegant but is actually a

Posted: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 - 17:45

Friday November 22, 0600 We arrived in SimonsTown yesterday afternoon at 4:00 after an easy 36 hour passage from Mossel Bay. We had a nice sail up False Bay on a clear, sunny day. It usually blows 30

Posted: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 - 15:51

Thursday, November 21, 0430 local time We have just motor sailed past Cape Aguhlas, the southern most point of the African continent. 90 miles further is the more famous Cape of Good Hope. In between

Posted: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 - 04:24

Saturday, Nov 16, Mossel Bay We are tied to the dock at Mossel Bay having a beer. This morning's weather report warned of strong winds at Cape Aguhlas after 11:00 pm and we were 150 miles away so

Posted: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 - 19:06

Escape from Port Elisabeth, Friday, 0700 local time (UTC +2). So happy to leave the tortuous situation at the dock in PE. We are blissfully motoring along in a comfortable swell. We hope to get to

Posted: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 - 19:15

A strong circular weather system developed along our path. We had optimistically hoped to outrun it, but realistically decided we should bail and we put into Port Elizabeth along with the other three

Posted: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 - 19:27

Sunday, Nov 10, 0730 We covered 175 miles our first 24 hours. It was slow going getting away from Durban and into the Agulhas Current. Last night was overcast and drizzly but pleasant enough with

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