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 ‘finish’
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 [...]
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 [...]
NEWS FLASH! They’ve arrived
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, blog, dark, finish, helm, Katharine, Maximillian, Pamela, Santa Maria, Simkins, St Lucia on December 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Pamela here to confirm that Maximillian and the Simkins crew have arrived in St. Lucia I received two text messages from Katharine last night, the first at 10.30pm UK time: “Hello, it’s Kat! We’re in sight of land!! Having a bit of a race with Santa Maria, still a few hours out. Will arrive after [...]
244 nautical miles to go!
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, batteries, boat, cooking, crew, crusing chute, deck, exciting, finish, generator, happy, helm, Mark, Maximillian, Moonstruck, spinnaker pole, spirit, squall, Tristan, VHF, winds, yacht on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We are getting so close! After 2456nm, 244 does not seem a big number at all. Our water supplies are doing very well, I think we’ve only used about half of Maximillian’s water tank. Fresh veg is out now, apart fro an onion or a potato or twwo but we do have some jars of [...]
