Race Logs
Top of the mast
Yes, we had to do another rig check. And this time Zan took his iPhone with him and got us this fantastic footage. You can see the rig, the sail, the deck. Gilesy is in black tailing the halyard that keeps Zan in the air and yours truly is steering the boat as steadily as…
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 10
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 010 Date: Jul 15, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 15.3 kts Current Course: 203ºM Distance since last update: 177 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 681 nm Bearing to Finish: 217ºM Location: Latitude:…
Speed Demons, Squalls everywhere
Speed Demons, Squalls everywhere…. Entering a fun part of the race. We’ve positioned ourselves to use the energy of a line of strong squalls giving us up to 33 knots of wind with a high heading on port jibe. Straight to the mark. Either something will give or we will get there fast. Beautiful ride.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 9
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 009 Date: Jul 15, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.8 kts Current Course: 208ºM Distance since last update: 180 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 854 nm Bearing to Finish: 214ºM Location: Latitude:…
Strategy update:
Strategy update: Here is an annotated chart that shows what we are trying to achieve. We want to stay in 20 knots of pressure if we can all the way to Honolulu. We are willing to sail extra distance for that. The star is where we are now. The red line is our proposed trajectory.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 8
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 008 Date: Jul 14, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.6 kts Current Course: 198ºM Distance since last update: 146 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,029 nm Bearing to Finish: 212ºM Location: Latitude:…
Sailing along and a series of unfortunate events…
Blood oranges, three stiches, trash in our oceans… Every one is fine and sailing fast!
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 7
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 007 Date: Jul 14, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 16.7 kts Current Course: 273ºM Distance since last update: 154 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,161 nm Bearing to Finish: 217ºM Location: Latitude:…
Licking our wounds and fixing everything
When we jibed we realized that something was wrong with our mast. Putting a mate up 75 feet above the deck (yes our rig is gigantic for a 50 foot boat!) is taking their life in your hands when it is blowing 25+ with 30+ foot waves. It takes a lot of mutual trust and…
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 6
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 006 Date: Jul 13, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 14.6 kts Current Course: 192ºM Distance since last update: 197 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,313 nm Bearing to Finish: 219ºM Location: Latitude:…
IMOCA Open 50 24 hour record: We did 403+ Nautical Miles.
Wow! We broke the IMOCA Open 50 24 hour record: We did 403+ Nautical Miles. This is really impressive because we broke that record by close to 80 nautical miles and the 400 mile mark was a huge unattainable barrier for a long time on sailboats of any size. We knew it was a fast…
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 5
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 005 Date: Jul 13, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 15.7 kts Current Course: 252ºM Distance since last update: 203 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,485 nm Bearing to Finish: 224ºM Location: Latitude:…
Extreme conditions 24 by 7, wet and wild, no way to stay dry. Fast ride!
It’s howling, and a giant surfing roller-coaster. Quite awesome.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 4
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 004 Date: Jul 12, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 17.6 kts Current Course: 244ºM Distance since last update: 203 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,674 nm Bearing to Finish: 229ºM Location: Latitude:…
Fast, wet and wild!
At daybreak, fast wet and wild. We found all the wind and the waves that Aeolius and Poseidon had for the Pegasus!
Navigating with MotionX
Doing all the navigation with MotionX. My iPhone 4 has great battery life, a fantastic screen, a much more accurate GPS sensor and is always on my pocket in it’s protective waterproof case.
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 3
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 003 Date: Jul 12, 2010 2:00 am Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 15.2 kts Current Course: 241ºM Distance since last update: 99.1 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,875 nm Bearing to Finish: 233ºM Location: Latitude:…
Wind is coming!
Gale coming… We are headed West, on this 96 hour forecast, at roughly the latitude of San Francisco. So in the next couple of days we expect to get into more and more wind, until we find too much wind. This is going to be an epic ride. Until the we are relentlessly focusing on…
Watching carefully, ships go by. Still whale weather.
In our second day. No sleep in the last 32 hours, trying to find every breath of wind that Eol and Posseidon are will to send our way, watching ships go by… And avoiding them carefully. Easy in the daylight. More challenging in the pitch black night with the new Moon and the fog. …
Pegasus-MotionX, Pac Cup 2010 – Position Update 2
Philippe uses MotionX-GPS HD on the iPad and is sharing their latest position: Name: Position Update 002 Date: Jul 11, 2010 2:00 pm Map: Google Maps iPhone/iPad Map: Maps Application Current Speed: 1.5 kts Current Course: 345ºM Distance since last update: 64.5 nautical miles Distance to Finish: 1,973 nm Bearing to Finish: 235ºM Location: Latitude:…
On port jibe on Southerly winds! Strange!
Sailing in very little wind and making the best of it! We are migrating with the whales.
Night encounters: Dolphins, Whales and …
It’s been an amazing night. Daybreak is right here. Dense fog. Very close encounters: Whales. Large ones and then suddenly out of nowhere our much larger competitor “Limit” with over 12 crew. Here they are, when we thought that they would be gone. David finding Goliath. No slingshot, just elegantly ghosting past them. We’re pretty…