I’d never been envious of Tom Perkins’ giant sailboat, the Maltese Falcon, until it received a deployable submarine in its belly. The sub, called the Deep Flight Super Falcon, is a 6.5m electric vehicle, bringing aerodynamic principles to the sea. More »
The Finish: The Pegasus Open 50 sailboat just set the Transpac record of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds for a double handed monohull ship. Previous Record: 10 days, 4 hours and 4 minutes. More »
July 12, 5:15 AM PST Sailing along fast. Found faulty regulator and alternator. Good start. More »
July 11, 9:20 PM PST Lost all ways to recharge batteries, down to emergency battery. Just like an aeroplane. More »
Scientists believe that bubbles are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. Or maybe they don’t, but I do. These are called Zubbles, and they are the world’s first stainless colour bubbles. Summer blowin’ on the beach, here I come. More »
July 9, 5:30 PM PST Today we are living within the realm of Squalls. Squalls in the the Northeast sub-tropical Pacific are different. They are small, concentrated and powerful. The rain lasts ~20 minutes under them if you’re stationary. We’re not. More »
July 8, 9:00 PM PST This is what a sunset looks like in the middle of the ocean, from a sailboat racing from California to Hawaii. More »
