Tumbleweed
FollowSV Tumbleweed, Valiant 42, 1998, #133
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Tumbleweed - December 13, 2018
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20181213 0500 UTC, Day 24. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands, ETA 12/17. When the first squall hit this morning, we were thinking that it would pass and ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 12, 2018
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20181212 0500 UTC, Day 23. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands, ETA 12/17. NE Tradewinds have arrived. It's been a beautiful sailing day with sunny skies ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 11, 2018
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20181211 0500 UTC, Days 21 & 22. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands, ETA 12/17. What a long strange trip it's been. Yesterday's theme was crazy seas. We ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 9, 2018
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20181209 0400 UTC, Day 20. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands, ETA 12/17. Only 30 nm VMG, but prospects are improving. Last night was a weird mix of wild ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 8, 2018
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20181208 0400 UTC, Days 18 & 19. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. -15 nm VMG. Although we're sailing a bit in the mornings, we mostly continue to ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 8, 2018
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20181206 0600 UTC, Day 17. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. -20 nm VMG. We are drifting eastward, further away from our destination than yesterday ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 6, 2018
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20181206 0600 UTC, Day 17. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. -20 nm VMG. We are drifting eastward, further away from our destination than yesterday ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 6, 2018
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20181206 0600 UTC, Day 17. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. -20 nm VMG. We are drifting eastward, further away from our destination than yesterday ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 5, 2018
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20181205 0600 UTC, Day 16. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. 5nm VMG. DOLDRUMS. HOT. But we really love the open sea. It's so peaceful. Dolphins visit ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 4, 2018
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20181204 0500 UTC, Day 15. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. 55 nm VMG, yippee. We had sailable winds averaging 7 kts all last night and most of the ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 3, 2018
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20181203 0500 UTC, Day 14. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. A return to good sailing conditions. We had no wind from yesterday evening to just after ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 2, 2018
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20181202 0500 UTC, Day 13. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Only 30 VMG. We had no wind from yesterday evening to just after noon today, when a nice ... Read More
Tumbleweed - December 1, 2018
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20181201 0500 UTC, Day 12. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Another wonderful slow day. Although we hitched a power ride on a couple of squalls, for ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 30, 2018
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20181130 0600 UTC, Day 11. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Because wind speed and direction are varying quite a bit, we've had to adapt our sail plan ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 29, 2018
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20181129 0600 UTC, Day 10. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. As GFS and EC forecasted the winds have dropped to under 5 kts. Tumbleweed is adrift but we ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 28, 2018
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20181128 0530 UTC, Day 9. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Good sailing weather continues with favorable winds and seas. But wind direction at 30-50T is ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 27, 2018
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20181127 0500 UTC, Day 8. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. A return to excellent sailing weather with favorable winds and seas. Sailing mostly on a ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 26, 2018
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20181126 0600 UTC, Day 7. 2 POB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well, kind of. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Electrical squalls were a continued threat last night. Torrential rain and many ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 25, 2018
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20181125 0600 UTC, Day 6. 2 POB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Lightning puts us on edge like not much else (piracy?). Yesterday evening the winds dropped to ... Read More
Tumbleweed - November 24, 2018
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20181124 0400 UTC, Day 5. 2 POB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Good sailing conditions continue, but at slower speeds. After many downwind passages with ... Read More