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My First Atlantic Crossing: Thinking of arrival

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Thursday, 9 December 2010. The countdown to arrival has begun in earnest. We have ticked off the 1,000 mile to go marker then put in. Three 200 mile plus. Sessions of 24 hours; 201 miles, 208 miles and today 214 (2 short of the boat record). So now here we are with 498 miles to go and an ETA of late Friday evening early Saturday morning. Hopefully, wives, family, lovers and girlfriends on the pontoon to welcome us. The helming has taken its toll on B Watch. Is an Inspector in ...

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My First Atlantic Crossing: Speed and exhaustion

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Monday, 6 December 2010. The attention and concentration is constant and we work in 30 minute relays throughout the day. Anyone trying to sleep down below has to put up with the boat tipping and bucking and twisting over the waves whilst the team shout to each other. The huge tailing winch either screams as the sheet is let out our grumbles and clanks as the sheet is ground in. Yesterday I felt exhausted and lightly queasy. A meeting of watch leaders resolved the issue. I've a...

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My First Atlantic Crossing: Helming at Night

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Tuesday, 7 December 2010. Pitch Black. No moon, thick black cloud cover, no stars at all not even a glimmer. 25 knots of wind over the starboard quarter and huge rolling following seas. We have a poled out Number One (our biggest sail) to Starboard. Number 3 goosewinged to Port. The main is un-reefed and let out to Port against the shrouds. We need to maintain an 8.5 knot average boat speed. Look at the windex 27 knots. Clamber over the bulkhead. Stand beside the wheel. We do ...

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My First Atlantic Crossing: Over Half Way

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Saturday, 4 December 2010. The last few days have been quite tiring on both crews. Lots of complicated sail evolutions as the wind has varied in strength and direction. In one four hour watch we had, were. Beating with Headsail and Foresail, reaching with Kite,. Downwind with poled out Foresail, Staysail. And Number three. Running just off the wind with the big symmetrical kite. Former Arcs but now it looks like Saturday. So,. Posted by Nick Tellwright. 6 December 2010 at 04:29.

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My First Atlantic Crossing: More to it than sailing

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Thursday, 9 December 2010. More to it than sailing. The boat kept rounding up and we were in constant danger of broaching, after two hours of struggle we brought it down and now we are reaching with the number 1, at. A slightly slower pace. Northern Child has been a joy to sail. We haven't had to. Reef and the wind range has been from 2 knots to 31 knots. She is so steady and stable. All of the pre `18th century. The post 18th century. Tool box, lift a floor board and spend tw...

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My First Atlantic Crossing: The Final Miles

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Friday, 10 December 2010. So that was our last night watch. We did 22.00 to 02.00 and 18.00 to Mid day. The last glorious dawn. "rosy fingered Dawn" as Homer so accurately described it. The morning was peaceful, the wind frustratingly light has driven us North of the rhumb line and is denying us a daylight arrival. We handed over to the "Dutchies" at Midday with just 68 miles to go. So now our eta is about 18.00 St Lucia time. I can't believe it's nearly over. I can't imag...

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My First Atlantic Crossing: Wind and Rain

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Thursday, 2 December 2010. There's an old yachting maxim that off-shore sailing is hours of inactivity interspersed with moments of shear panic. Although we haven't had any scary moments yet, the last few days have certainly been a mixed bag of low winds and frustrating tweaking followed by a few hours of exhilaration. Today being typical. What can we do? Traditionally, sailors are a superstitious bunch, and now after 10 days at sea we are no different. Each of us has a differ...

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My First Atlantic Crossing: November 2010

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My First Atlantic Crossing. Tuesday, 30 November 2010. Disappointment tinged with understanding flowed through the crew. We motored in silence. One hour later we hit the wind we had expected and planned for all morning, it mounted until at 7 knots we switched off the engine having covered 9 miles. 9 miles that cost us our racing status. Since then for the last 24 hours we have set a blistering pace with winds between 9 an d 14 knots helping Northern Child. On watch both at night and during the day. And w...