Last night the remaining yacht crews and families gathered together to celebrate the closing of the ARC finish line and award an endless stream of prizes! Hundreds of happy sailors filled the hall waiting to find out if they would be awarded a racing prize or even one of the special prizes. Unfortunately, though we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Atlantic’
End of the ARC and prize-giving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ARC, Atlantic, Christmas, crew, finish, home, Lani, marina, prizes, Silver Bear, skipper, St Lucia, yacht on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Roxy on finishing the ARC
Posted in St Lucia, tagged adventure, Atlantic, beautiful, Crossing, dark, finish, marina, party, scary on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We made it! And I am happy as a fox can be to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean! What an amazing day We got to the finish line after dark so it was quite hard to see where we were going, but the boat at the finish line helped us by flashing their lights [...]
Finishing the ARC
Posted in St Lucia, tagged adventure, ARC, Atlantic, beautiful, crew, Crossing, cruising chute, Dad, damage, finish, fruit, helm, horizon, Jasmine, land ho!, marina, Mark, Maximillian, Pamela, party, Pigeon Island, rum, sailing, sails, Santa Maria, skipper, spinnaker, squall, St Lucia, swell, Tristan, Tucanon, VHF, wind, yacht on December 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I do find that the very best way to be woken up after a night (well… day really) of rum punches is by foghorn!! More of that later, but first let’s start at the end. The end of our mini-adventure across the Atlantic!! We had the most beautiful day of sailing on Wednesday, as though [...]
News from Roxy
Posted in Crossing, tagged Atlantic, boat, boys, cockpit, crew, Katharine, Maximillian, Roxy, sailing, scary, skipper, yacht on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am getting very good at sailing! It’s fairly easy so far because the wind is always behind our boat and we haven’t needed to do very much. The crew seem to spend a lot of time reading books, talking, listening to music and eating meals! They usually change the sails a bit around sunset [...]
One week at sea!
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, Atlantic, beautiful, Beth, boys, cruising chute, Dad, deck, doldrums, engine, knots, squall, start, swell, Tristan, winds on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It has been one week since we crossed the start line for the ARC and without tempting fate, we think we’re doing quite well. We suspect we may be taking a slightly different course to the rest of the fleet, more westerly rather than heading directly south and taking an abrupt turn west. The winds [...]
