We were up bright and early on Friday and lowering the genoa and mizzen sail before 8am, the best time of day to be doing jobs as it gets so hot so early. The lowering wasn’t a problem, but folding the huge genoa on deck was harder work. Soon we were moving into the dock [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dad’
Laying up Maximillian for hurricane season
Posted in Trinidad, tagged Amel, boat lift, Dad, genoa, Maximillian, mizzen on May 4, 2010 | Leave a 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 [...]
Squall Alley
Posted in Crossing, tagged Aquila, boat, boys, crusing chute, Dad, dark, deck, helm, horizon, knots, Mark, Maximillian, moon, rain, sailing, scary, squall, Tristan, winds on December 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We’ve had a heavy-going, uncomfortable night onboard as we’ve been hit regularly by squall after squall. The first bad one came on us after dark last night, just as we were finishing our dinner. Already a dark night with the moon not yet risen and the stars obscured by cloud, the squall appeared as a [...]
Lightening storms and a sail on the horizon
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, blooper, boys, Dad, dark, horizon, knots, mizzen, moon, quiz, spinnaker, Tristan, VHF, winds, yacht on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve seen no one out here for close to a week but yesterday to our excitement, a sail appeared on the horizon at our stern – how reassuring! We tried to call them up on the VHF but either they weren’t maintaining their listening watch or the call to ‘ARC yacht flying blue and light [...]
Update from Tristan
Posted in Crossing, tagged blue cheese, boat, cockpit, crew, Dad, fishing, funny, helm, Katharine, knots, Mark, Old Grey Beard, problem, quiz, Roxy, sailing on December 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
What I would give for more than 6 hours in a bed that doesn’t think its a bucking broncho! Having heard a loud bang and wondered if the mast has fallen into the dawnlit sea I pop my head out of the hatch to see Mark and Dad in the cockpit looking unworried. Before I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First catch & fun and games with the generator, again.
Posted in Crossing, tagged beautiful, boat, cooking, crew, Dad, dark, engine, fishing, generator, helm, horizon, John, Mark, Maximillian, moon, problem, Roxy, sailing, Skyelark, swell, Tristan, VHF, yacht on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It may not have done our average speed any favours, but we had the most beautiful day’s sailing yesterday. The swell was running much more easily and right behind us so that we surfed the waves without any crazy slewing around which was fun. The sun was out and the sails were balanced really nicely [...]
Time flies when… you insist on changing the rigging all the time!
Posted in Crossing, tagged Dad, exciting, fishing, genoa, Mark, mizzen, Roxy, sails, sea-sickness, spinnaker booms, Tristan, VHF, yacht on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We can’t quite believe it’s already our fourth day at sea, boredom certainly hasn’t set in yet, although we did all get up to take a look at a buoy floating past us this morning! Hints at the similiarity of what we see most of the time at the moment! Mark & I were getting [...]
