Accompanied by dolphins under a bright full moon, Sea Dragon started the 2020 sailing season on Sunday with a smooth overnight crossing from San Diego to Catalina Island in the Channel Islands. The boat is full of energetic grad students on an Exploration Science Program. So yesterday we let them […]

We’re going to Tahiti in May! Unfortunately the grant for the proposed research voyage to the Phoenix Islands was not successful, but it does mean we get to go to another hemisphere! Yes, that’s right, from Christmas Island we’ll be continuing our southward voyage, crossing the equator and heading to […]

Well, It’s that time of the year again when we buckle down to yard work on Sea Dragon to get her ready for the next sailing season. We’re doing a lot of big projects this year in addition to our normal maintenance and annual survey by MECAL for coast guard […]

Thank you to all 20 of you who have applied for a deckhand position with us next year. As of November 1, we are no longer accepting applications. If you have applied for a position, we will be in touch shortly. -Eric & Shanley

Midway point celebration: time for some delicious midway brownies! Our bellies and souls are happy.  But the next day with quite a distance still left to go, we hit a period of unrest. The weather had turned grey and dreary and for a moment it seemed spirits had dropped and […]

BLOG 07/30: Distance run: 1279nm Current position: Lat- 39 deg 27.73’N / Long- 145 deg 46.72’ W You may be wondering what happened to us but worry not we are still here, steadily making our way towards Victoria. In fact today we crossed the halfway mark and are now closer […]

It feels like we’ve been back in Hawaii for a month but it’s only just been over a week. So much has change since the last blog. Last time, we were just leaving Tabuaeran. As predicted the passage back to Hawaii was bumpy. It was one of those passages where […]

Hello from the sweltering tropics! Meret (my onboard upgrade/replacement) wrote this lovely blog. I (Sarah) will be heading home to the frigid northlands of Minnesota once we get back to Hawaii! And with no further ado…It’s silent on the boat. The quiet feels unusual after the bustle of the last […]

Leaving Hawaii, Sea Dragon raised sail and headed south. Along with the jib and main, we also flew a staysail on the inner forestay. Good wind gave us about 8kts of boat speed for almost the entire way to Palmyra. As we got closer to the equator, nighttime squalls would […]

Sea Dragon has been sunning herself in gorgeous Hawaii for the past week and a half. After our last crew left us, we took a few days of relaxation (showers and mai tais) and exploration (snorkeling and hiking), before delving into some of the boat projects that needed doing.  Out […]

Sea Dragon made it to Hawaii! But I’m getting ahead of myself. First… Since the last blog, there have been many days of sun and sailing and many nights of stars and squalls. One night, Peter and I saw the biggest meteor you’ve ever seen. It was so big you […]