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 [...]
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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 »
Linda & Hema arrive St Lucia and more
Posted in St Lucia, tagged beards, boat, crew, happy, Hema, home, John, Katharine, Mark, repairs, Rodney Bay, Roxy, rum, St Lucia, tea, Tristan, twins on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hema and I had a good flight to St. Lucia and as we approached the West Indies the cloud formations changed to lots of mini cotton wool balls, which I am told is fair weather cloud. As we came in to land the aircraft dipped its wing and there was St. Lucia in all its [...]
Squalls, they come on you fast and they leave you fast!
Posted in Crossing, tagged Christmas, cockpit, crew, dark, dolphin, fishing, fruit, home, Katharine, knots, Mark, Maximillian, Old Grey Beard, quiz, Roxy, sailing, sails, skipper, St Lucia, Tristan, whale, yacht on December 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today’s update is from Tristan: Well the day started well as Old Grey Beard whipped up some fantastic omlettes as we slowly trugged along at a frustrating five knots! A number of people jokingly asked me if scurvy would be a problem on our expedition before we set sail. I assured them it wouldn’t be [...]
