LongPac Boat Shots

the minute the sun was out (usually on Heather's watches...), the boat was transformed into a big massive laundry shop.

Mainsheet coiled up and ready to go. New cup holders with some ginger ale (everything was ginger-flavored on this trip for some reason....) and the cockpit handheld VHF

I hear that Magellan called the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean because it was pretty tame...I think that I can see how that idea came through his head now...

Nice view of the new adjustable car system which we used quite a bit on this trip.

Wind!!!! (must have been on one of Heather's watches...)

We did run the reefing lines...but as you can imagine didn't have much of a use for them this time around...





Finally some sun! Quickly putting foul weather gear and undergarment up on deck for drying!



Radar reflector.
This is a requirement (especially in fog and at night) but Heather made a good point. Big ships will probably filter out small boat traffic, otherwise, they'd see spots on their radar all the time. and we also know from experience that they don't monitor Channel 16 on VHF very well...The only effective protection we could think of was to proactively find out where the ships are and stay out of their way. The AIS system helps you do that.


Our TackTick stopped working for some reason. It looks rather fried even though we didn't do anything special with it. Not a problem but alongside the spinnaker pole sleeve, a cup holder and a hammock, it is one of the casualties of the LongPac.