Map of

Don Jensen made a map of Coby's route to date. Thanks Don!

We are working on making a link in which you can interact with it, adding in weather, moving ahead to imagine his route to Hawaii, etc. 

In the meantime I will post his coordinates in a Google Earth friendly manner. Then you can put then in the "fly to" box and see right where he is.

Sunday location 19:29

Location sunday night around 7:30 

lat 43 10 709 lon 129 05 511

Coby is very very tired, and was meeting some of the challenges of soloing. Last report is that he got music on the radio, and was feeling better. Humans seem to need human voices. 

Sat. night location

text from Coby at 22:52

43 53'N, 128 03'W

Becalmed. Will try more S for better winds+weather

Albatross and rest

Satellite phone call:

An albatross circled the boat.

Coby is tired, so he is leaving a reef in the main even though the wind is mild at the moment. This will allow him to rest -- he won't have to change the sail for the gusts that have been up to 25 knots. He was in some rough seas, but Snookums handled them very well indeed. He checked the bilge -- not a drop! 

He might practice QiGong. To practice, he goes on the foredeck and is tethered to either side of the boat, so he can stand without fear of falling overboard.

current location:

n44.05' w127.41'

The minutes are precious. It was SO  hard for us to hang up!

location Friday night

From Coby's satellite phone, 20:42  Friday

 at N44 54 lon W126 48 wind 15-25. 2 reefs in main. seas lumpy. Snookums fine. me tired.

location June 11 22:46:57 PDT

From Coby's Satellite phone:

lat 45 48 210  lon 125 09 340 reef in main   Aries is steering  me to bed

Snookums launched!

Katja writing:

Coby set off from the West Basin Moorage in Astoria bound for New Zealand via Hilo and Samoa, some time after 9:40, after a proper blessing ceremony.  Ali, Larry, Deborah and I saw him off. Details to follow.

Many thanks to Ali, Dave, Scott, Ciaran, Deborah, John and Larry and all who journeyed out to Astoria to help him launch. You helped make his dream!

Larry and I traveled to the observation tower on the jetty and were able to watch his departure from near buoy 10 until he was out to sea. 

He progressed from motoring to the main sail, then adding foresail, though he kept the motor going until across the bar. He passed buoy 1 around 12:20 p.m.

Snookums looked as if she was enjoying taking the wind. He reported being well sprayed as he hoisted the foresail, and having fun. He sounded exhilarated. 

He saw a dolphin! Felt very auspicious. 

I watched until the sails were two tiny dots shimmering through the atmosphere and mist, and I lost them. Around the same time we lost phone contact, but not before we said: Aloha.

Bless every one of you who helped him to fulfill this lifelong dream.