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 ‘St Lucia’
Back in the Caribbean!
Posted in St Lucia, tagged beautiful, marina, sailing, St Lucia on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
End of the ARC and prize-giving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ARC, Atlantic, Christmas, crew, finish, home, Lani, marina, prizes, Silver Bear, skipper, St Lucia, yacht on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night the remaining yacht crews and families gathered together to celebrate the closing of the ARC finish line and award an endless stream of prizes! Hundreds of happy sailors filled the hall waiting to find out if they would be awarded a racing prize or even one of the special prizes. Unfortunately, though we [...]
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 [...]
Linda & Hema arrive St Lucia and more
Posted in St Lucia, tagged beards, boat, crew, happy, Hema, home, John, Katharine, Mark, repairs, Rodney Bay, Roxy, rum, St Lucia, tea, Tristan, twins on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hema and I had a good flight to St. Lucia and as we approached the West Indies the cloud formations changed to lots of mini cotton wool balls, which I am told is fair weather cloud. As we came in to land the aircraft dipped its wing and there was St. Lucia in all its [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Maximillian crosses the half-way point!
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, cruising chute, Dad, half-way, St Lucia, Tristan, yacht on December 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
There were celebrations onboard last night as we passed our half-way point – hurray! We treated ourselves to a bottle of rose, cheeseburgers and shared a large bar of dairy milk – brilliant Talk of our arrival date is now being guessed at onboard, ambitiously ranging from 8th to a more pessimistic 12th December guess [...]
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 [...]
