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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
