I don’t know how I managed to fall asleep last night with all the crashing—each wave sent me further down the

Location: 320 miles W of Norfolk Island
Boat speed: 10.9 kts
Wind speed: 9.4 kts 
Heading: 169deg
Sails:

LOCATION: 250 miles W of the Isle of Pines
BOATSPEED: 16.6 KTS
WINDSPEED: 13.7 KTS
HEADING: 164-degrees
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Location: 100 miles W of New Caladonia
Boat speed: 14.6
Windspeed: 14
Heading: 181-degrees
Sails: Big jib,

LOCATION: 100 miles E of Guadalcanal
BOATSPEED: 10.7
WINDSPEED: 9.3
HEADING: 170-degrees
SAILS: Code-0, staysail, full main

LOCATION: 200 miles N of Malaita, Solomon Islands
BOATSPEED: 14.3
WINDSPEED: 15.7
HEADING: 177-degrees
SAILS: Big jib,

We continue to careen around the Pacific Ocean like an angry New York City taxi driver delivering a very-late passenger. One

523 miles in 24 hours is a lot of miles for a sailboat. That’s averaging 22 miles per hour over the

523 miles in 24 hours is a lot of miles for a sailboat. That’s averaging 22 miles-per-hour over the last day,

LOCATION: 10 miles E of Ogasawara Islands, Japan.
BOATSPEED: 16 KTS
WINDSPEED: 14 KTS
HEADING: 104-degrees
SAILS:

LOCATION: 250 miles W of Chichi-jima Island, Japan.
BOATSPEED: 19 KTS
WINDSPEED: 14 KTS
HEADING: 092
SAILS:

It only gets stranger. We’re surrounded by Japanese islands, one of which we passed within a mile of last night, and

There is a lot to be happy about onboard PUMA’s Mar Mostro.

First and foremost, we finished the outrageously horrific batch of

The realities of the coming complications are setting in. Our predicted 18-day leg has turned into a 20-day one, maybe even

There’s a reason they call upwind sailing 'beating' – it’s what we take while doing it. These boats are just not

Walking into to an empty marina was not exactly the way we wanted to start our morning, but as the last

No way to sugercoat it, this is a weird report to be writing. I could wait to send it from the

There’s only a day and a half of racing left out here and still plenty to gain. It’s yet another testament