Kai is often quite funny. Niche humour.

Snowing on our boat! This has never happened before. The past two months doing boat work and far more insidious - boat work logistics has been hard work. Massive thanks to everyone who’s helped out. A pretty magical moment for the boys and Elayna but perhaps especially me today. 🥲 Incredible.

We are out of the water and have commenced work on the fwd beam area. The damage we can confirm now was all superficial as we suspected. The fairing piece has been cut away as you can see and no damage to where beam enters either main hull or float. Everyone is very happy but there is still much work to do. The fairing has arrived from Rapido and one of their contractors will arrive soon for installation.

Some much needed time off the boat. There will be a video coming out on the 21st explaining everything that happened. Working on that at the moment. Looking through here at everyone’s adventures is so beautiful.

It’s very rare I sit on my ass whilst my own boat makes it way through the water. This has happened… I honestly can’t remember when. I LOVE people who are good at their jobs. Kai is good at his job. Massive shout out to this guy, one of the best sailors I’ve ever met and just a pleasure to be around. He’s a good influence on the boat in general and also the kids who just think he’s so awesome as well. It’s been good switching off the brain and doing laptop work today. I got so much done! A lot of it for this app we’re in right here 🤓 Have an awesome day everyone.

Trying to use a 9 knot current to get our max boat speed so far, for the clicks brah for the clicks, and we may have been pushing a little hard. There were whirlpools that some onboard were genuinely worried would swallow us whole and a crunching upwind 1st to 2nd reef situation that required some patience and not a small amount of skill to get out of. We were hesitant to put in the second because we were so close to the downwind section of the trip but true wind kept climbing and climbing until we had no choice. So ofcourse right when it’s peaking to 30 I’m swinging off a line to set the reef hook. When it’s blowing 30 it’s hard to pull down a main and ours is quite large. Will look at rigging a downfu$&er for sure. There was adrenaline and a lot of people gathered by the helm/port windows at different points just watching the maelstrom the ocean poured forth today. Darwin slept the entire time. Lenny followed the vibe onboard and was just stoked really. Incredible day onboard for all.

Arose early with renewed vigour, somewhat of a pep in our collective step, and decided to head off before breakfast and before even coffee. With the current behind us our tacking angles were looking more like 70 degree gybes but I assure you the AWA was sub 30. Looking at the tracks made me personally nautically aroused as did the tall ship we took to starboard before, as happens far too often I’ve found whilst sailing, being unable to moor at our pre organised moorage. We radioed in and enquired if we could anchor at the anchorage seems as though we couldn’t moor at the moorage. Unfortunately that also was a no so we sailed south for 3 miles to a dock we heard we could dock at. This turned out to be ok and now we’re having lunch.

Well we’ve been launching this app and been kinda busy so I forgot to hit post on the last trip. Welcome everyone! 🙌🏼 Soo happy to have you all here 🥹

For months our goal has been to get to the “relative” safety of the Japanese Inland Sea (Seto). There’s still Typhoons everywhere but at least the Cold Fronts are keeping them at bay now. We filmed a lot of videos to promote this app. I really love Sea People, I hope it’s useful for sailors and water people everywhere. We’ve busting our ass day in and day out sailing, filming and exploring for the last couple of months. Importantly we actually had a fricking ball pulling it all together as well. Heading through Typhoon Alley in the middle of Typhoon season was wild. Not something to be taken on lightly. Special thanks to the incredible crew we have onboard, Ellie, Kai and Carine.