New York - Crew Blog

A time for reflection

27 June 2008

Starting out on race 12 and hitting a wind hole for 3 days undoubtedly gives you time to think and reflect on the Clipper journey of a lifetime, and the last 10 months. And what a rollercoaster of a ride we have had with plenty of ups and downs, highs…

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GPS

24 June 2008

So we’re in the middle of the Atlantic, full main,Yankee 1 + Staysail pounding along with the sun out and my watch taking a breather and drying out from the…

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Religion @ Sea

22 June 2008

Race 13 – the last big one.

The summer solstice was not celebrated very well on New York clipper – a shortage of druids, long white robes and…

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On our way to Cork

21 June 2008

After a great send off from Sydney, Nova Scotia, complete with giant fiddle on the quayside and bagpipes, we had an exciting race start with lots of close manoeuvering in…

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Rules

18 June 2008

When I joined the race in Santa Cruz, my mind was crammed full of everything I had learned during my 3 weeks of training for this ‘challenge of a lifetime’. …

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Compare and Contrast ….

12 June 2008

We have just experienced two stopovers in the space of a week and a half – how very different they were.
Manhattan made a spectacular backdrop when we…

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Gaining weight

11 June 2008

Sleek, trim and fast; that’s how the skipper likes both the boat and the crew, such wishes have been put to the test during the New York stopover. New York…

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To finish or not to finish that is the question – Race 11 a test of nerves.

01 June 2008

Race 11 from Jamaica to New York has been a very unusual race for the skipper and crew of New York. After a starting position of ninth we were all…

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Hello from the Bahamas…

30 May 2008

...or somewhere vaguely near them. A stopover in Nassau would have been very nice but you don’t really have the time on a race. We left Jamaica on Saturday after…

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Things we forgot?

08 May 2008

Now the race is over it is hard to believe it is day 15 at sea, (where did all those days go?) Being on a watch system you only know…

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Closing on Panama

04 May 2008

We’re coming up to the midway point on the race to Panama and as Duggie briefed us this afternoon it’s become a very close downwind drag race, with the boat…

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Things always come in threes…

02 May 2008

The newbies amongst us have settled into our watches well, so quickly that we have been able to maintain the trends of previous legs in the first few days. The…

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Continually learning

28 April 2008

What a lot I have learnt already and it is only day four, or is it five, I’ve lost count? The days tend to meld into one: they have no…

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The motion of the ocean

25 April 2008

UTC 0420 and it’s Friday – Leg 6 Race 9 to Panama.  What a brilliant time: the start yesterday was exciting.  It’s great to be actually racing – watching from…

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Same, same, but different

13 April 2008

Joining a new boat for my last race with Clipper has been a bit of an eye opener in more ways than one.  Although the yachts are the same, almost…

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Ocean racing…way more exciting than Formula One.

09 April 2008

I have always hated Formula One racing.  It always bogs down the weekend’s TV when there must be something else more interesting. Football, rugby, or cricket would be great.  Hockey,…

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ALOHA!

07 April 2008

Aloha; Hawaiian for hello, goodbye and love! A short stop over that turned into 2 ½ weeks whilst essential work was undertaken to all of the boats rigging. 2 ½…

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Who’s Counting?

18 March 2008

We are almost in Honolulu. Well, almost if 278.3 miles is close. When the race ended we were over 600 miles from Ala Wai Harbor in Honolulu. That’s 600 miles…

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Far better to travel than to arrive

13 March 2008

The celebrated Scottish author and renowned globetrotter Robert Louis Stevenson famously opined ‘that is it is far better to travel in expectation than it is to arrive.’ RLS should know…

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Gladiators…ready!

09 March 2008

My part A training skipper told us that we would have vivid dreams during our time at sea. This has certainly been the case with myself, especially last night. This…

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