Stealth Mode

Conditions for sailing are much improved on the patch of the Pacific that Narrow Escape is presently transiting. Or have they?

Well we don't know for sure. Because not exactly going to plan our team has switched to Stealth Mode. This morning they failed to provide the Communications Vessel, Alaska Eagle with a position report.

Maybe they are about to undertake a bold tactical maneuver and don't want their fleet to know it. Or maybe it's because they are so relishing the sailing (finally) they just forgot. Or maybe they are both nappytime and "Billy the Stick" is driving (quite well actually). But more likely there is some problem with that haywire, unreliable, glorified Cell Phone, pile of junk Sat Phone!

Here is a teaser from my latest book "Behind the Blog", to be released soon:

"You might be wondering why we have been incommunicado. It turns out that when you go to use the Sat Phone if you enter the wrongy password three times the whole thing locks up you have to return the thing to an authorized reseller to have it reset"! (Evil, what's that password again, Webster).

There has been a running debate between your Blogmeister and the onboard crew as to the merits of new technology. Being old school I advocate SSB Transceiver with a Pactor Modem as the most reliable method of communication not to mention, all important, GRIB file collection. Are those chickens coming home to roost?

Anyways (not actually a word according to Hammer) because of the Transpac Tracker we do know that they are ripping along down the course now.

And what a difference a day makes:

At Narrow Escape World Headquarters we think things out there are near perfect now. The wind is aft of the beam and like Chuggy predicted maybe it is spinnaker time onboard.