The-Logs-of-the-Good-Ship-Triteia

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The Logs of the Good Ship Triteia
Sinopsis :
This collection of my logs was originally published as daily blog
posts on my satellite tracker page during my solo ocean
crossing from Los Angeles to Honolulu, Hawaii. The passage
lasted thirty-two days and spanned 2300 nautical miles with
the last 1000 miles being without the use of a rudder to steer
my boat. At the time, I had no idea how many people would
regularly access the updates and watch my progress. For the
first half of my passage, only the handful of my closest friends
and family followed along as I slowly moved across the largest
ocean on our planet and making way for the shores of Hawaii.
My heart was beyond crushed and I was in a state of shock
and disbelief at the very abrupt ending of my marriage only two

weeks prior to my departure. For me, there is something
extremely liberating about the ability to record thoughts and
feelings during a time I was so mentally and emotionally fragile
and without the usual back and forth dialogue that comes in
this time of social media. I share my life freely and openly on
YouTube and Instagram and enjoy the interactions with
strangers and regulars alike in this age of real-time
correspondence. But the format of posting via satellite where I
could send but not receive and share my thoughts and ship's
business, allowed for a solitary experience and one that
reflected my reality and my time at sea alone. I have no idea
how many people followed along with my journey in real-time
but judging from the amount of people who contacted me after
making landfall, it was far more than I ever expected. Those
who are my close friends as well as complete strangers
reached out to me and most described the same experience:
they found themselves obsessively checking and refreshing
the tracker, day and night, looking forward to my morning
reports, noon position updates, golden hour reports, and
evening thoughts entries. My old friend Carlos mentioned it
was like reading a pulp serial that was being played out in real
life and another close friend, Dane, said he figured the
attraction was because the ending was completely unknown.
He pointed out the moment of when I was adrift 1000 miles
from Hawaii and no one, not even myself, knew what would
happen. Everyone seemed to stay tuned-in day after day to
see how it would turn out.After I made landfall and Triteia was
safely tied up at the dock in Honolulu, Captain David Stovall
suggested I publish these logs into a book. I have long had a
habit of journaling and documenting my life and my first book,
American Idle, was a collection of journals from my time as a
taxi driver in Los Angeles. My next book, published in 2019
and my first writings about the sea, is a collection of my ship's
logs from my first solo sailing adventure and the first step

down the path that finds me today, sitting onboard the good
ship Triteia in Ala Wai Harbor, Oahu. I have included
photographs and images for every entry giving the reader a
visual reference for life at sea that was absent when when
these were published in realtime on the satellite tracker page.
Thank you for joining me on this wild ride.James
FrederickCaptain of The Good ShipS/V TRITEIA