Wash & mend day.

As Seeker skirted the northern edge of a high pressure ridge on the way toward a developing low, her crew enjoyed a day of warm, sunny weather, which allowed for bathing and some general work that has been neglected in favor of racing duties. Then the wind continued to back and Seeker encountered the first couple mild squalls associated with the impending front just after a rather phenomenal sunset. The stars in between the squalls are pretty phenomenal themselves.

Also, we caught three crabs. We decided they were not quite big enough for dinner, however, so we tossed them back.

Seeker out.

34°26'N
136°35'W

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Seeker Makes Good Runs

Reaching before the 17-25 kt Northerlies of the last couple days, Seeker has made some decent 24 hr runs. At today's roll call, we had made 181 miles, for yesterday's we made 177. Now the weather chart has been set on its head, and we're making good some miles to Maui before the gale hits. We're missing you all and we hope all is well ashore.

35° 13' N
135° 07' W
29 June 0000 HST

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fair winds

Yesterday afternoon Seeker finally found some good northerlies, so we've been sailing for the trades! This morning we saw a small spout about a half a cable off our starboard beam, but it didn't approach so we don't know the particular variety of whale. We were however treated to some Dall's Porpoises riding our bow wave this morning.

Seeker Out
43d33m N
126d40m W

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A Relatively Unaventful Day

Seeker continues south along the Oregon Coast now, encountering mostly light westerlies and southwesterlies. Now they've picked up a bit so we're making better time and they're more westerly so our course is better. This afternoon we encountered a shoal of spinner dolphins, and a 4 ft shark and a couple of albatrosses this morning.

Hope for northerlies tomorrow!

Seeker Out

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Seeker Turns Left

At 2205 PDT Seeker set a new course south from Duntze Rock and Cape Flattery with a beautiful sunset bringing an end to a spectacular day of sailing in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The day started with an almost perfect start in which we may or may not have had a hand in nudging Strum over the line early. On our way out we crossed paths with the HMS Bounty, the Lady Washington, and a Brigantine on their way to the Tall Ship Festival in Victoria. At current time we are 6th in the fleet with 3 boats behind us, and two boats ahead in view. More updates tomorrow.

Seeker Out

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All loaded and ready to go!

well, we have finally finished our way through the last minute pr0jects and it is finally time to provision the boat with fresh food and have a beer before we take off!


As you can see, we have the boat completely stocked with water, food, snacks and everything else we need to get to Hawaii.




Hopefully we are hungry, I don't think we have ever seen a pretorien with the stern this much in the water. Then again, we did have 9 people in the cockpit when we took this photo. Hopefully we are hungry!




We have uploaded more photos on a different site that allows you look at them easier. There is a link on this blog, and they can also be found at: http://lbuchholz.smugmug.com/Sailing/537785.

The US Says Good-bye to Seeker

Just before we crossed the border on our delivery to Victoria, the USCG decided to pay us a visit. Needless to say, they were satisfied with our safety measures, especially our safety systems chart, and bid us a good race.

Blog Launch

You've found the site for the regular updates from the Seeker Vic Maui attempt. We had a great send-off party last night, here are some pictures.