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The Coast Guard put out a call for diesel fuel which was answered by the commercial vessel "Horizon Hawk", courtesy of Horizon Freight Lines. Mad props guys. Anyways, "Horizon Hawk" dropped a bunch of drums of diesel fuel into the water with little orange markers on them. Like some bad carnival game, Ed and I drove around in our wounded boat, picking all of them up with a boat hook. I had to jump in to retrieve a few. A line from one of the drums got wrapped around the prop, but Ed cut it out. Go Pro footage of the whole ordeal was captured.
Thanks to Horizon Hawk, our newest unofficial sponsor, we now have 50 gallons of diesel and a ton of motor oil.
Slowly motoring for home, just trying to keep the heavy side down. Oh never mind, that saying doesn't apply to us any more. Wish us luck.
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All is not well aboard the good ship "Warrior's Wish". Unfortunately, the keel broke off of the boat last night. Fortunately, it didn't take part of the hull with it, so we are not taking on water. We are currently motor sailing with a small jib up. The Coast Guard is maintaining 2 hour radio checks with us and a freight ship is on its way to drop off diesel fuel. Life raft and ditch bag are in the cockpit, on the ready, in case the boat capsizes. We are doing everything in our power to get this boat back to California.
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Ed and I are still truckin' along here on Warrior's Wish. The Pacific High got really big and headed north before it decided to head south again. Because of how north it had gotten, we had already decided to stay south of it and beat to weather before picking up a more northerly breeze that would let us make some solid easting. With our plan still intact, the high moved south and jumped us, leaving us more or less becalmed for much of yesterday and much of today. All together, we only motored a couple of hours, all in 20-30 minute segments, as we kept getting little puffs of breeze and shutting off the motor. The little 1 lunger Yanmar only makes 4 knots or so at cruising rpm, and I really don't like motoring at all, so we've kept sailing. We were able to make some good southing, (giving up northerly progress, but trying to duck back under the high) and have found ourselves in more breeze making slow but steady progress, hard to weather. We are basically short-tacking across the Pacific, trying to head as much east as possible, while not heading south more than necessary, and definitely not heading north into the high.
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Still out here in the middle of an ocean... Looks like the Pacific High is absolutely massive, meaning that we need to stay south of it and sail straight to weather for 1,000 miles or more. Getting plenty of practice killing fish with a winch handle which is cool though. Radio modem is extremely slow right now, so short blog. |
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July 30, 2010- 26* 40 N, 157* 07 W
Just over 2 days into the voyage back to California, and things are going pretty well. We caught a mahi-mahi this morning, have managed some minor repairs to the boat and are moving right along our planned course making pretty decent boat speeds.
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As you can see, I am now on the island of Oahu. After a fairly difficult upwind passage from Kauai, "Warrior's Wish" was berthed at Waikiki Yacht Club with a minimum amount of drama. My delivery crew is in town, the boat is 99% prepped and ready, i'm racing on a 1D35 all weekend, and then it's back to business to get this boat back across the Pacific.
Warrior's Wish at Waikiki Yacht Club in Honolulu. Thanks WYC and Dan Doyle from "2 guys on the edge"!!!
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