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Chesapeake City, MD to Atlantic Highlands Jersey Shore: June 29 th 2025, to July 1 st 2025
The World is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.“~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The passage home has been textbook to date, but with each passing day, the tension has risen between the desire to make headway and the desire to make headway in fair weather. This pressure added to the trepidation,…
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Onward to Annapolis, It’s the Middle, June 22nd to June 25th , 2025
“Challenges are romanticized.We’re conditioned to think they’re heroic. Short-lived epic. Instagramable.But most real challenges aren’t like that.Sure, the beginning, scary. The finale is dramatic.But the hardest part, the part that actually changes you?It’s the middle.The mundane, day-after-day slog. The monotony. The lonely grind.That long, drawn-out struggle where you want to quit, not because it’s impossible,…
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Back on Kailoa – Charleston, SC to Beaufort: June 14th to June 20, 2025
“Parting is such sweet sorrow,” Shakespeare After spending a month back in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to regroup following our Passe’ Compose’ journey to French Polynesia, we returned to Charleston to bring Kailoa up the East Coast… HOME. During our month in Marblehead, we caught up with family, met with friends, and tackled the many chores at…
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April 22-23 GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS
Excerpt from Ships log: #6. FALKEN | GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS | WHERE IS THE WIND? April 22, 2200 Ship’s Time | Approx. 9º28’ S, 133º47’W | Broad Reaching with Full Main and Jib Top Well, well, well… Who could’ve foreseen that the most uncertain part of this trip would be the 300nm to landfall?In a…
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Galapagos to Marquesas April 19-20-21
Excerpt from Ships log: #6. FALKEN | GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS | CELESTIAL April 19, 2025, 2230 Ship’s Time | 8º48’S, 128º33’W | Full Mainsail & Poled Jib Top “At certain times in the life of a navigator, it can be more useful for them to know not where [they] are, but where [they] are not.”…
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April 18, 2025: FALKEN | GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS | STARS
April 18, 2025, 2029 Ship’s Time | 842 Miles East of Hiva Oa | Sailing Wing-on-Wing Full sail. Wind is down and the stars are out. We haven’t had many truly great starry nights on this passage until tonight. On leaving the Galapagos, when the nights were clear, the moon was so bright so as…
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April 17 2025: FALKEN | GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS | Food!
Excerpt from Ships log: #6. With two thirds of this passage complete already I have been reflecting upon the gargantuan task of provisioning and meal planning and the learning curves in relation to food as our voyage has progressed. Any professional sailor responsible for provisioning will have felt the nagging fear that there simply isn’t…
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FALKEN | GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS
Excerpt from Ships log: #6. FALKEN | GALAPAGOS TO MARQUESAS | BOOBIES FALKEN Being at sea thousands of miles from land is a vulnerable place to be at times and none more so than when the water maker decides to malfunction. Our ability to desalinate saltwater enables us to sail long distances without the need…
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Pacific Crossing April 12-13 2025
By Saturday April 12, 2025 (Shannon’s Birthday) Falken is averaging over 200 NM per day. That is fast! Even with this positive progress we are a bit down because Ted and Udo have come down with the cold. Scott, Kim and Ted have been named “Squall Team 6” because we have steered through a squall…
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April 10-11: Sailing with Southeasterly Trade Winds
By Thursday, April 10th, we began to approach the southeasterly trade winds, turning off the motor as Falken surged at 9.0 kts Speed Over Ground (SOG). We were finally sailing and there was a shift in the mood of the crew as the air temperature cooled, a welcome change from the oppressive heat. That night…