Julia and I are flying out to Hawaii tomorrow to take part in a delivery of the boat Coyote from Kaneohe Oahu to San Francisco. Coyote had a great race, taking a close 3rd in Division B of this year's Pacific Cup race. The skipper Steve Hill and the rest of the crew have a lot of great experience (including 4 combined trips between SF and Hawaii), and we're excited to take part in this trip which should be a great learning experience and adventure.

Plans are (weather permitting) to leave Hawaii on Monday July 26th. Time of the trip is highly weather dependent, but we would guess somewhere between 2 and 3 weeks. While we are underway there are a variety of options for you to keep track of us and keep in touch.

Satellite Tracker. Boats in the Pacific Cup carry a satellite transponder onboard that updates every hour, allowing you to follow us via the webpage and see our location, heading, speed, etc. Go to the website, and click on division B on the left side, and then click on Coyote to highlight us. We are about 90% sure this tracker will continue to be operative during the return delivery, but don't worry if it isn't, it's still a pretty experimental piece of technology. The website is: http://www.ionearth.com/2010/pacific-cup/ (Note: I have found that sometimes this website doesn't fully load and you have to keep reloading the page a time or two to get it to work, so you may encounter that problem as well).

Our Blog. We may be updating the blog while underway, not sure yet, it'll depend on our motivation and access to email airtime.

Coyote's Blog. Coyote also has a website and blog that I believe Steve will be updating occasionally. At the very least you can read the reports from their trip over: http://sailcoyote.com/