ALICE'S ADVENTURES - rigging checks and sailing at last

rigging checks and sailing at last

ALICE'S ADVENTURES

ANDREW AND CELIA SHARPE

Sat 27 Nov 2010 11:56

We have just had our slowest 24 hours with only about 125 miles covered. We have at last got a steady breeze blowing from the east and we are doing 5 and half knots which is actually better!

Very warm, cloudy and muggy today. Masses of dolphins today and crew just reported seeing flying fish. Still no fish landed for dinner tho.

Every day all the crew have to take a walk round the deck and inspect the rigging. In Las Palmas we had the rigging checked by Jerry the Rigger who showed us what to look out for. The picture is of me being hoisted up to have a look round.

Alice

Blog Entries

2011

Sep 2011

Sun 11 Sep 10:20
- Back in Mystic

Aug 2011

Fri 12 Aug 16:50
- Boston to Block Island photos
Sat 6 Aug 15:22
- Boston to Mystic

Jul 2011

Thu 28 Jul 15:07
- photos Nantucket to Cape Cod
Wed 27 Jul 12:41
- Cape Cod to Boston
Thu 14 Jul 18:32
- Gingerbread Cottages
- Mystic to Marthas Vineyard
Fri 8 Jul 01:15
- Long Island Sound

Jun 2011

Thu 23 Jun 15:17
- NEW YORK
Fri 17 Jun 15:00
- New Jersey
Mon 6 Jun 16:09
- some photos
- Chesapeake Bay

May 2011

Sun 22 May 23:39
- Bermuda to the USA
Sun 8 May 14:45
- Bermuda
Sun 1 May 09:48
- Back in the Atlantic

Apr 2011

Sat 30 Apr 20:11
- BVI and visitors
Sat 2 Apr 12:52
- A Busy Year

Mar 2011

Sun 13 Mar 09:25
- Guadeloupe

Feb 2011

Sun 13 Feb 20:28
- A few photos
- February already

Jan 2011

Tue 4 Jan 17:07
- HAPPY NEW YEAR

2010

Dec 2010

Tue 21 Dec 17:12
- Nearly Christmas
Sun 19 Dec 15:07
- Crew change
Mon 13 Dec 15:19
- A warm St Lucia welcome
Sun 12 Dec 12:37
- Nearly there
- Alice and George the RNLI bear looking at what to do in St Lucia.
Sat 11 Dec 12:44
- ALICE helping with the fishing
- Excuses
Fri 10 Dec 12:26
- A better night
- Alice helping Celia and Roger in the galley
Thu 9 Dec 12:07
- Alice at the helm - George in his normal prone position behind!
- A very rough night
Wed 8 Dec 12:11
- Water
Tue 7 Dec 12:21
- water leaks
- Alice with the leaking hot water cylinder
Mon 6 Dec 12:16
- Day 15; Rubbish
- Alice and George the RNLI bear with 2 weeks rubbish
Sun 5 Dec 12:08
- Over 2000 miles now
- Alice next to the log showing our top speed of 11.3 knots
Sat 4 Dec 12:24
- Trade winds?
- Alice changing the clock
Fri 3 Dec 12:17
Thu 2 Dec 12:30
Wed 1 Dec 11:19
- What a day!

Nov 2010

Tue 30 Nov 12:06
- life saving drill
- Alice having life saving training with George the RNLI bear and one of the boat's life rings
Mon 29 Nov 12:24
- Another rough night
- The flying fish
Sun 28 Nov 13:12
- lots more wind
- scrubbing the decks
Sat 27 Nov 11:58
- Rigging checks
- rigging checks and sailing at last
Fri 26 Nov 12:46
- The one that got away!
- The one that got away!
Thu 25 Nov 10:39
- Checking the fruit
- Alice checking the fruit
Wed 24 Nov 12:20
- No Wind
- Alice trimming the sails
Tue 23 Nov 11:35
- Alice in charge
Mon 22 Nov 11:32
- First night at sea
Sun 7 Nov 17:26
- Las Palmas

Oct 2010

Fri 29 Oct 11:59
- Waiting in Lagos
Sun 3 Oct 18:46

Sep 2010

Sun 19 Sep 14:24
- Lisbon
Mon 6 Sep 09:32
- Porto onwards
- Portugal

Aug 2010

Fri 27 Aug 18:50
- Combarro to Bayona
Mon 23 Aug 11:24
- The Rias
Fri 13 Aug 09:05
- Crossing Biscay
Fri 6 Aug 18:05
- sunshine in Les Sables

Jul 2010

Fri 30 Jul 17:02
- Concarneau
Mon 26 Jul 09:40
- fog in France
Fri 23 Jul 17:01
- France
- Channel Islands
Wed 14 Jul 15:54
- blue sea and sky
- Nearly ready

Jun 2010

Wed 23 Jun 11:55
- ALICE

rigging checks and sailing at last

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