WAR STORIES & KITES

2026-2 | FALKEN | Sea of Cortez-Costa Rica
Passage Blog
4/2/2026
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1:00 am

Kite Up!

00:56 UTC | 19°39.10’N 109°09.72’W
Sailing

Another perfect sunrise sipping coffee and swapping stories. It turns out that finding cockroaches on your boat is not the worst place to find them. As a young surf shop employee, Robert once found a cockroach duct taped to his back as by one of his coworkers. The most crucial and harrowing aspect of such a horrible prank is he could feel the little bugger squirming around under the tape. Thinking quickly while failing to reach the tape with his hands, Robert jumped to his back to squish the roach and end the horrible prank. Swapping stories is my favorite part of long passages.

The only thing that could top the gut wrenching laughter of the crew while Robert told his tale was after 1 day 23 hours and 5 minutes Christine finally broke Mary down and the kite went up! We were only able to fly it for the afternoon and it was great to see the crew taking turns at the helm whether they were on watch or not.

The yankee is back out and we are ready for a beautiful sunset and perfect sailing through the night.

Cheers,
Jake

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