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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Maximillian crosses the half-way point!
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, cruising chute, Dad, half-way, St Lucia, Tristan, yacht on December 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
There were celebrations onboard last night as we passed our half-way point – hurray! We treated ourselves to a bottle of rose, cheeseburgers and shared a large bar of dairy milk – brilliant Talk of our arrival date is now being guessed at onboard, ambitiously ranging from 8th to a more pessimistic 12th December guess [...]
Picking up the trade winds
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, boat, cruising chute, engine, genoa, helm, knots, Maximillian, St Lucia, winds on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When you wake to find yourself sleeping halfway up the wall rather than on the cushions of your bunk, it’s a fair bet that the winds have picked up in the night! Maximillian has changed from the graceful creature she was at sunset last night to a wallowing behemoth, clumsy under the helm and heavy-going for our [...]
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 [...]
