Typically, typhoon season in the North Atlantic starts in the summer—yes.  Summer doesn’t officially start until the 21st, but like all things weather this year, things are whacky—normally you don’t get full blown typhoons until mid July into September, but this year is starting with a bang.  We’ve weathered the […]

If you haven’t googled “Mandy Barker, SOUP” do so.  Crewmember and photographic artist Mandy Barker from Leeds, UK has a series called SOUP–which pretty much went viral when her images hit the internet. Her work is based on the North Pacific Gyre, and she photographs plastic ‘rubbish’ collected from beaches […]

Let me start with a very clear statement – all forecasts indicate that Sea Dragon and her crew are SAFE! Now that being clear, we should really marvel at the unbelievable power of the sea- Super Typhoon Guchol is now forecast to peak at a powerful 160 kts driving 45+ […]

We’re in the thick of it.  After delay upon delay getting out of port; weather, mechanical and an unfortunate illness that knocked out one of our crew from making the voyage (Shout out Nick Mallos, we miss you buddy), we’re now finally out to sea. We’re trying to bash our […]

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NEWPORT, OREGON (HawaiiNewsNow) – http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/18722604/66-foot-dock-from-japan-tsunami-washes-up-in-oregon A massive piece of debris from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami has floated all the way to an Oregon beach. A 66-foot-long, 7-foot high concrete and steel floating dock made landfall on Agate beach just outside Newport, Oregon. The Japanese Consulate’s office in Seattle and Portland […]

We leave when the sea permits, and right now Typhoon Mawar is telling us to stay put.  We can set departure dates as much as we like, but a faulty alternator kept us from leaving June 1st, and now the weather window for leaving Tokyo Bay is slammed shut.  Every […]