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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crossing’
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 »
THE SKIPPER’S REPORT
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accident, adventure, Amel, ARC, batteries, beards, beautiful, blog, charge, cockpit, crew, Crossing, cruising chute, dark, DB Consulting, deck, engine, finish, food, fruit, fuel, funny, gas, generator, genoa, goose wing, halyard, Katharine, knots, Las Palmas, mainsail, Maximillian, mizzen, parasail, Pigeon Island, power, problem, Rodney Bay, rum, sailing, scary, spinnaker pole, squall, St Lucia, swell, tea, Thindra, voyage, wind on December 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hello everyone, We are here! Relaxing and partying with the best of them but doubt we are consuming rum punches as fast as Thindra’s crew. The Swedes are in a class of their own. Thindra is a Swan 60 with eight for a crew which was moored up alongside us in Las Palmas. Seems so [...]
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 [...]
