Maserati Update (a couple days ago)...

The weather has been exceptionally kind to us on Maserati thus far as we continue our journey towards San Francisco.

The future also looks good, the latest long term routing has us at 34 S on the other side of South America on the 27th at midday UTC….. That would be incredible going, and given the reliability of the 15 day models, not super likely to play out exactly as advertised. We will see. The end of that routing leaves us more or less 4600 miles to go. Assuming an average of 15 knots, That is a finishing date of the 9th of February, or 40 days.

Fuzzy logic like this is one of the three trains of thought onboard. The other two, both equally important are the eating, shitting, sleeping loop, and the boatspeed loop.

Everyone is more or less the same in regards to the first loop, some eat more (tiger) some shit a lot (various, at least a few are proud to show it off) and others are impossible to wake up (fearless leader)
AS far as the boatspeed loop goes, we have the Ericcsson boys to than for all their hard work 2 boat testing, recutting sails, performance analysis, and general exhaustive documentation which makes sail selection automatic for us.(with a little wiggle room for our judgment of sea state).

We have a team of people looking at the weather onboard, the principals being Boris, Gio, and Seb, each of whom seem to prefer to concentrate on different Information, be it historical patterns, Grib data, scattergrams, or satellite pictures. It all comes together constantly to keep us on the best course and in the nicest wind.

I am very happy to dream of finishing times, sleep, and concentrate on getting every ounce out of the boat during my time helming.

Back to the crystal ball of finish times, the model does not show any lows suddenly developing off Argentina, which i8s quite a common thing, and it shows a low conveniently stationary for just long enough for us to pass the Horn, which is an occurrence not often seen in the south, a stationary low…. Fingers crossed.

Seb has said I have to get up there and drive now.

Ryan out.

(From Sailing Anarchy)