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 ‘Maximillian’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
