Poor Maximillian has been all on her own in St. Lucia since Christmas so Dad and I have flown over to give her a little tlc and move her to safer waters for the hurricane season rapidly approaching. Between commitments at home, BA strikes and volcanoes it’s been something of a saga getting people over [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sailing’
Back in the Caribbean!
Posted in St Lucia, tagged beautiful, marina, sailing, St Lucia on April 26, 2010 | 1 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First catch & fun and games with the generator, again.
Posted in Crossing, tagged beautiful, boat, cooking, crew, Dad, dark, engine, fishing, generator, helm, horizon, John, Mark, Maximillian, moon, problem, Roxy, sailing, Skyelark, swell, Tristan, VHF, yacht on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It may not have done our average speed any favours, but we had the most beautiful day’s sailing yesterday. The swell was running much more easily and right behind us so that we surfed the waves without any crazy slewing around which was fun. The sun was out and the sails were balanced really nicely [...]
