Submitted by jono on 23 Jul 2025.

Much of this journey has been a fight against wind and tide. Just a week ago, it seemed that I was at least three weeks away from closing the loop of the circumnavigation. A double dose of typhoons could easily have prevented completion. In actuality, I got lucky with the weather. A string of days with settled weather and kind south-westerly winds set up a trio of crossings that now puts me one short hop away from Onjuku, where the journey began.

Long Distance Short Break

After some good runs, a few days off as rough weather passes through. The recovery time is welcome. Distance remaining is 124 nm "as the crow flies" (a bit longer with ins and outs). That doesn't sound much, but none of them sail themselves!

Submitted by jono on 17 Jul 2025.

No movement for a few days as we let big seas calm down. Before that I had a very satisfying trio of days.

200 Miles to Chiba

Onjuku, in Chiba prefecture, is where I started the voyage round Japan. I am now within 200 miles of closing the loop.

Submitted by jono on 11 Jul 2025.

Groundhog Day section. Wind is a distant memory. Every day since forever is paddled in part or in full. Trickles of breeze come and go, and are almost always on the nose. I no longer stow the paddle, since it will soon be needed again.

Submitted by jono on 05 Jul 2025.

A great run yesterday down to Kushimoto, the southernmost tip of Wakayama Prefecture. This comes after 2-days-previous when I only made 4 nm, before nearby thunderstorms and my own tiredness advised as early stop; and yesterday when I put the hours in, but the very light headwinds limited progress to about 9 nm.

Cape Muroto

Cape post before we get chucked out of the supermarket with wifi!

Submitted by jono on 29 Jun 2025.

Lots of paddling lately. The last bit of wind was before a rainy rest day at Kochi City. Kochi sits in the middle of a roughly 150 km wide semicircular bay. The east side of the bay runs out along a peninsular - Cape Muroto - that juts out into the Pacific Ocean and is triangular and pointed like a shark's tooth.