The basics
16:00 UTC | 33°42.0N 158°37.4W
Sailing
Nordic Falken and her crew have been in a steady course of NNW since the departure of Hawaii. A course that has seen us mainly close reaching with the occasional close hauled. For those who don’t understand what sailing to this angles with the wind we’ve had means it’s basically a constant battle of the basics. Brushing your teeth, putting your shoes on, changing clothes or even just eating become extremely complicated, you forget the basics you learned when you were a toddler and find yourself questioning your existence for most of your watch.
But! The good thing of all of this is that the promised land on which the high pressure lies has been getting closer and closer, meaning in a couple of days we’re gonna see the wind slowly veer all the way to the South, which finally should see us easing the sails and remembering the basics of human nature all over again.
The crew have been amazing and we’ve had everyone come around to push through fatigue, seasickness and soaking wet clothes. The waves have died off over-night and we’ve had the first bit of dry deck since we departed, a pleasure to our butts which have been sitting on the damp since then!
On another note we left the tropics a while ago and we can really feel the shift of temperature, long gone are the shorts and foulies have been the norm. I keep pushing for bare-feet to make me feel like I’m still in Hawaii but the sleeping bag and greyness keeps reminding me that perhaps it is time to realize that the tropics indeed, are long gone.
Not much more apart from this, my intolerance to upwind sailing still pretty much alive but doing it with a bunch of such amazing human beings makes it worth it worthwhile.
Mahalo
Alex
Alex
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The basics
Somewhere northwest of Hawaii, Nordic Falken is locked in a relentless close reach—the kind of sailing that makes brushing your teeth feel like a philosophical crisis. The crew is pushing through fatigue, soaked clothes, and the slow realization that the tropics are well and truly behind them. But the high pressure is closing in, and with it, the promise of eased sails and something resembling normal human existence.
Pacific pace
Somewhere north of O'ahu, with the wind finally in their favor, ten strangers became something harder to define. Falken is moving fast across the Pacific — crew from every walk of life finding their footing, their rhythm, and each other. The passage has barely begun, and it's already delivering.
24 hours of resilience
Thirty knots of wind, a 2.7-metre cross swell, and a crew being pushed to their limits — the first 24 hours aboard Falken have been anything but gentle. Seasickness has taken its toll, but the boat keeps moving, carving north toward calmer conditions. Last night, between the chaos, the Milky Way stretched clear across the sky.