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Azurite
Denver, Colorado
Artist, geologist, economist, sailor. Interested in all the ocean and all thing creative. Cruising the Caribbean this winter, Panama by late February, and 👀on a 2025 transpacific
Nice trip to the society’s. Better wind and seas than expected made for a quick trip
A slow sail to Fakarava to catch the 8:45am low tide. Showed up an hour and a half early and got slack tide. Sailed with just a headsail to keep it slow. Saw 30kts of wind when the forecast was supposed to be 16. Very rolly. Caught two ~25lb yellowfins on handlines
We left the Marqueses with a light wind forecast of 3 days. Had a slow start but picked up significant wind day 2. Potentially could have sped up the boat to shave a day off the trip, but to be certain of making the atoll pass on time we ended up slowing down significantly. Turns out Azurite is a hard boat to slow down and even with a deeply reefed main and stay sail we had a really hard to getting under 4kts. Caught a monster yellowfin tuna we estimated to be -150lbs. Happy to be in the Atolls and eating sushi
Highlights from the last batch of film from the Caribbean, developed on Azurite just before departing for the South Pacific