Well, Thursday it begins. I will be crewing on a sailboat for the first time during an offshore race, and it looks like it's going to be a good one. The race start at eight am sharp on Thursday and if you peak at the picture below it shows that the wind speed will be at nineteen knots around eight in the morning moving up to about twenty eight knots with gusts of forty knots! It's going to stay in the twenty knot range through the better part of Friday.
I invite you to follow along as we make the one hundred and ninety three mile journey up the coast of Washington and onward to Victoria, BC. It should take us somewhere between fifty six and fifty nine hours of straight sailing to get there. That should put us there late Saturday night, I expect you to stay up eating popcorn and waiting for us to finish.
The following links will let you follow us, see what the race is all about and show you what the winds are like out there.
Click here to link to this great site tracks our progress as we race. It should be updated to the 2014 race by Thursday morning. Look for our boat, she's named Wave Dancer.
To read about the race in general and see the names of the thirty something boats racing click here.
Click here for an amazing website that shows the winds not only along the Washington coast but the whole world!
The following links will let you follow us, see what the race is all about and show you what the winds are like out there.
Click here to link to this great site tracks our progress as we race. It should be updated to the 2014 race by Thursday morning. Look for our boat, she's named Wave Dancer.
To read about the race in general and see the names of the thirty something boats racing click here.
Click here for an amazing website that shows the winds not only along the Washington coast but the whole world!
I'll do my best to get some great pictures of the action to share with you.
See you in the land of the maple leaf.
~J~
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