Midway point celebration: time for some delicious midway brownies! Our bellies and souls are happy.  But the next day with quite a distance still left to go, we hit a period of unrest. The weather had turned grey and dreary and for a moment it seemed spirits had dropped and […]

BLOG 07/30: Distance run: 1279nm Current position: Lat- 39 deg 27.73’N / Long- 145 deg 46.72’ W You may be wondering what happened to us but worry not we are still here, steadily making our way towards Victoria. In fact today we crossed the halfway mark and are now closer […]

It feels like we’ve been back in Hawaii for a month but it’s only just been over a week. So much has change since the last blog. Last time, we were just leaving Tabuaeran. As predicted the passage back to Hawaii was bumpy. It was one of those passages where […]

Hello from the sweltering tropics! Meret (my onboard upgrade/replacement) wrote this lovely blog. I (Sarah) will be heading home to the frigid northlands of Minnesota once we get back to Hawaii! And with no further ado…It’s silent on the boat. The quiet feels unusual after the bustle of the last […]

Leaving Hawaii, Sea Dragon raised sail and headed south. Along with the jib and main, we also flew a staysail on the inner forestay. Good wind gave us about 8kts of boat speed for almost the entire way to Palmyra. As we got closer to the equator, nighttime squalls would […]

Sea Dragon has been sunning herself in gorgeous Hawaii for the past week and a half. After our last crew left us, we took a few days of relaxation (showers and mai tais) and exploration (snorkeling and hiking), before delving into some of the boat projects that needed doing.  Out […]

Sea Dragon made it to Hawaii! But I’m getting ahead of myself. First… Since the last blog, there have been many days of sun and sailing and many nights of stars and squalls. One night, Peter and I saw the biggest meteor you’ve ever seen. It was so big you […]

Sea Dragon pointed towards O’ahu, Hawaii at 1400 Monday, May 27th. The sun was shining and the wind was blowing and we were cruising along at 10 knots. The ride on a tight reach was pretty bouncy, and a few of us got to know a variety of sea sickness […]

Since the last blog, we’ve spent almost two weeks in Ensenada, Mexico. Our sail down from California was a lovely day full of sun and breeze. We watched dolphins chase schools of fish into the shallows (for easier eating) as seagulls and pelicans bombed in from above. A whale spout […]

Sarah Tokos, our deckhand extraordinaire, will be chronicling our voyages this spring. Here are her reflections on our first trip, sailing from San Diego to Ensenada via the Channel Islands in a last minute itinerary change! We got our feet wet at 1000 last Thursday morning with a new crew: […]

There’s an old saying that goes “Ships and sailors rot in the harbor.” While we’re in the shipyard here in San Diego, Sea Dragon is definitely doing the opposite of rotting, but some days her crew struggles a bit. We’re nearing the end of our nearly month-long haulout, and we […]