We made it! And I am happy as a fox can be to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean! What an amazing day We got to the finish line after dark so it was quite hard to see where we were going, but the boat at the finish line helped us by flashing their lights [...]
Posts Tagged ‘scary’
Roxy on finishing the ARC
Posted in St Lucia, tagged adventure, Atlantic, beautiful, Crossing, dark, finish, marina, party, scary on December 14, 2009 | 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
