Thursday, August 18, 2016
New ETA for Tiki Blue 2:30 pm RYC
Straight from the Warlords mouth. They are looking forward to land, Family and Friends! 2:30pm at RYC C12.
Gary Troxel
Gary Troxel
Tiki Blue arrives today around ?
Looks like Tiki Blue and crew will arrive today at RYC around 1pm. They are about 30 miles out sailing in light winds however I expect they will start motoring soon if they have fuel. When they get to the Golden Gate Bridge I will send out an alert which will be a 1 hour notice of arrival. Come on down and great the salty sailors who have been at sea for 18 days! Yeeehaaa!
Gary Troxel
Gary Troxel
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
When will Tiki Blue Arrive?
Good question Tiki Blue Pac Cuppers. The Warlord is is either very focused on grib files or trying to get the sat phone connected to the sextant to communicate. As soon as I get word on ETA to RYC I will post it immediately. It looks like they are approximately 120 miles out. If it is in the weee hours then I will make sure to be at the Club to let fans and family in to great and celebrate their successful pacific crossing home to San Francisco and home port of Richmond Yacht Club the best club east of KYC! Aloha for now Capt'n Gary.
Monday, August 15, 2016
Blog Post 8-15-16 Monday
Current position 0800HST: 38-19, 132-32 heading 071m @ 7.09knts winds 16 - 20knts
473nm to go!
Racer Woooben is definitely keeping our brains in the game for getting home. Key is to keep the boat moving as fast as possible while not falling too fast towards the GG. The past few days have been uneventful with Andy's creative cooking, Wooben's trimming and the Warlord navigating. We've only seen a few tankers go by...one at night at some distance and the other just now a little closer heading north. Its always fun to watch them...mainly to not get too close and the other just to wonder what they could be carrying and where they're going. At night, lights are deceiving, but from them you can usually tell which way they are heading and some idea of the size.
We're expecting to land some time morning of 8/18 Thursday unless we can pick up some speed along the way. Gale force winds have been predicted along the coast (coming from the north), but that's not expected until Wednesday (according to Jim Antrim). The 3 boats heading to Victoria are already seeing some of it. Other boats have already finished with others to finish early this week.
Our Sat phone had been unreliable the past few days, so Andy took a look at the connection to the boat, bent something, filed something else then reattached with duct tape. Voila! we now have a connection. Way to go Andy. Nota Bene was nice enough to send out the daily report last night since none could be sent. Hopefully we're back at it for this evening's roll call.
Weather is definitely chilly and cloudy with lumpy seas. Typical as you approach our coast. The crew has already started wearing long johns and some foulies at night. tonight should be a few more layers.
Tiki Blue putting the pedal to the fiberglass to get home!
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473nm to go!
Racer Woooben is definitely keeping our brains in the game for getting home. Key is to keep the boat moving as fast as possible while not falling too fast towards the GG. The past few days have been uneventful with Andy's creative cooking, Wooben's trimming and the Warlord navigating. We've only seen a few tankers go by...one at night at some distance and the other just now a little closer heading north. Its always fun to watch them...mainly to not get too close and the other just to wonder what they could be carrying and where they're going. At night, lights are deceiving, but from them you can usually tell which way they are heading and some idea of the size.
We're expecting to land some time morning of 8/18 Thursday unless we can pick up some speed along the way. Gale force winds have been predicted along the coast (coming from the north), but that's not expected until Wednesday (according to Jim Antrim). The 3 boats heading to Victoria are already seeing some of it. Other boats have already finished with others to finish early this week.
Our Sat phone had been unreliable the past few days, so Andy took a look at the connection to the boat, bent something, filed something else then reattached with duct tape. Voila! we now have a connection. Way to go Andy. Nota Bene was nice enough to send out the daily report last night since none could be sent. Hopefully we're back at it for this evening's roll call.
Weather is definitely chilly and cloudy with lumpy seas. Typical as you approach our coast. The crew has already started wearing long johns and some foulies at night. tonight should be a few more layers.
Tiki Blue putting the pedal to the fiberglass to get home!
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