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 ‘Tristan’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lightening storms and a sail on the horizon
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, blooper, boys, Dad, dark, horizon, knots, mizzen, moon, quiz, spinnaker, Tristan, VHF, winds, yacht on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve seen no one out here for close to a week but yesterday to our excitement, a sail appeared on the horizon at our stern – how reassuring! We tried to call them up on the VHF but either they weren’t maintaining their listening watch or the call to ‘ARC yacht flying blue and light [...]
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 [...]
One week at sea!
Posted in Crossing, tagged ARC, Atlantic, beautiful, Beth, boys, cruising chute, Dad, deck, doldrums, engine, knots, squall, start, swell, Tristan, winds on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It has been one week since we crossed the start line for the ARC and without tempting fate, we think we’re doing quite well. We suspect we may be taking a slightly different course to the rest of the fleet, more westerly rather than heading directly south and taking an abrupt turn west. The winds [...]
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 [...]
Time flies when… you insist on changing the rigging all the time!
Posted in Crossing, tagged Dad, exciting, fishing, genoa, Mark, mizzen, Roxy, sails, sea-sickness, spinnaker booms, Tristan, VHF, yacht on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We can’t quite believe it’s already our fourth day at sea, boredom certainly hasn’t set in yet, although we did all get up to take a look at a buoy floating past us this morning! Hints at the similiarity of what we see most of the time at the moment! Mark & I were getting [...]
