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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Katharine’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
When will they arrive?!
Posted in Crossing, tagged blog, generator, Katharine, Pamela, Simkins, St Lucia on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hi everyone – Pamela here… Because of generator problems, the Simkins clan aren’t able to write long blog posts at the moment But keep an eye on the Twitter box on the right hand side of the blog, as Katharine is sending me occasional tweet updates from the ocean. Now they’re getting close to [...]
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 [...]
News from Roxy
Posted in Crossing, tagged Atlantic, boat, boys, cockpit, crew, Katharine, Maximillian, Roxy, sailing, scary, skipper, yacht on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am getting very good at sailing! It’s fairly easy so far because the wind is always behind our boat and we haven’t needed to do very much. The crew seem to spend a lot of time reading books, talking, listening to music and eating meals! They usually change the sails a bit around sunset [...]
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 [...]
Position update from Pamela
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, Katharine, Maximillian, Pamela, Thindra, yacht on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pamela here again…. Katharine asked me to email her some pictures of the fleet from Google Earth, plus some specific info on the other yachts in their class they are looking out for (which she mentioned in an earlier post in response to Jo’s question). I thought since I’d prepared it all, I’d post it [...]
