Category: Tim On Everything

Many people I meet ask me why there are so many pilots who also love sailing? The answer is simple. The physics is the same. It is the Bernoulli Principle, named after the Swiss Daniel Bernoulli. He realised that a shaped object moving through a fluid, be it water or air, exhibits certain predictable results. […]

Goodbye Thailand (and SE Asia). After several months, and with this Corona virus looking more like a bio weapon gone bad, it’s time to sail west. Next stop, Cochin India. About 1500 nm west from Phuket Thailand, and about a 14 day sail. We are checked out of Thailand, finished our lost provisioning, and ready […]

Monday June 3, 2019. At 2200 UT, SV Intrepid is 18 degrees 22 minutes South and 157 degrees 54 minutes East. Course 330T at 4.7 kts! (We just did a tack) Wind E/SE at 12.5. Swell SE an 1.5 meter. Cloud 90% and barometer 1017, steady. We traveled 547 nm with 825 nm to go, […]