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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pamela’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
The ARC fleet viewer
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, blog, crew, Linda, Maximillian, Pamela, Simkins on November 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Note from Pamela: I’m getting updates from the Simkins crew most days and posting them to the blog as quickly as possible. But if you are super keen, and want to see how Maximillian is doing compared to the rest of the fleet, you can look them up on the ARC Fleet viewer. Linda and [...]
