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 ‘genoa’
Laying up Maximillian for hurricane season
Posted in Trinidad, tagged Amel, boat lift, Dad, genoa, Maximillian, mizzen on May 4, 2010 | Leave a 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
