Bruce Stavron

Smooth ocean, 3 to 4ft following seas. Partly cloudy morning with sunny sky’s from noon on. A really nice day on the water.

We had 10kt winds with gusts up to 18kt. We had two broaches one in each of the two races for the day. We broached as we jibbed the Spinnaker at the end of both downwind legs. We were able to recover quickly both times but lost a lot of time and speed to the other boats. We were the only ones flying spinnaker in each race.

Very comfortable conditions, lite winds 3 - 4 ft swells. We were able to fuel up, change the oil on the main engine, exit docs done and provisioning done in 3hrs. Then shoved off well before sunset towards San Diego. Did our check-in on line then had to take a call from the Coastguard at midnight. They had questions regarding Nikolay’s documents. lol. We made a quick stop in the Police Dock, met Rosie, Nikolay’s wife. She dropped off his cold weather gear for the trip to Anacortes. They are dropping me off at Dana Point and picking up my replacement. Good trip!

Conditions were calm most of the trip. Mostly overcast all 5 days. Had a little wind after Cabo for a few hours, 18kt winds with gusts to 24kt. I worked as crew for Nikolay of SD Captains. I cooked as well as standing night & day watch and handling lines.

Great race, fun conditions. 6 to 10kt winds 3ft swells. I was trimming jib. We had 7 crew on board plus me. It was a bit crowded in the cockpit but we managed well. We ended up 5th after starting 18.6mins behind 1st boat. Almost had Pacifico at the end less than a boat length and one boat behind Chaos.

15 to 23kt winds, 3 to 4ft swells. DNF’d race due to navigator error.