Crossing in February

[frankafloat]

Hi. We are currently in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the boat is almost ready to leave. Anyone planning on crossing in early February? The Group seems to have gone quiet. Perhaps you've all left😄
We plan to pass by north of the CVs but won't stop unless we have a problem.
Regards
Frank & Anne
Scot Free III

[Steve Royal]

Hi

We are about to leave from marina San Miguel at the south of Tenerife, possibly Thursday, and take a direct route to Barbados, with the option of staying a bit further north and making landfall in St Lucia or Antigua. I believe there are some who may be already in CV and know of one boat due there in a day or so. The winds for the next few days look good - 10 - 20 kts, but there is a large weather system to the north which looks as if it could send some big seas our way, so we might wait a day or two.

we have SSB and a delorme inreach onboard

Happy sailing

Steve and Carolyn

Tummler

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[steve royal]

We plan to set sail for the Caribbean on Saturday, at the moment it looks like 10 - 20 knots and 2 metre seas just about all the way - don't think we can get anything better than that !

Steve and Carolyn

Tummler

On 1 February 2017 at 10:52, Steve Royal <svtu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

We are about to leave from marina San Miguel at the south of Tenerife, possibly Thursday, and take a direct route to Barbados, with the option of staying a bit further north and making landfall in St Lucia or Antigua. I believe there are some who may be already in CV and know of one boat due there in a day or so. The winds for the next few days look good - 10 - 20 kts, but there is a large weather system to the north which looks as if it could send some big seas our way, so we might wait a day or two.

we have SSB and a delorme inreach onboard

Happy sailing

Steve and Carolyn

Tummler

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:00 AM, frankafloat <frank...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. We are currently in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the boat is almost ready to leave. Anyone planning on crossing in early February? The Group seems to have gone quiet. Perhaps you've all left😄
We plan to pass by north of the CVs but won't stop unless we have a problem.
Regards
Frank & Anne
Scot Free III

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[Alison Nelson]

Hope you find some companions and have a good trip - we are one of those on the other side being very quiet! Far too chilled over here.

Alison and Andy Nelson
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[Sean Clarke]

Hi Steve and Caralone,

Hope all ok. Good luck with the crossing. We are looking to leave in about a week or so.

There are a number of boats waiting to leave here CV

As soon as we know some SSB times I will post to you. 

Good luck

From

All of us xx

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[Tom Fisher]

Hi all.

Hope you get your 2 metre seas. We crossed in late November. It was my first crossing and I find judging wave heights very difficult but I think we had 3-4 metres and 20-30k from the East with squalls in second half. Suffice to say the seas appeared huge!

We crossed to Fort De France, Martinique. A tactical error as it turned out because the two other boats we crossed with diverted to Saint Anne, giving us a very wet beat to join up with them later!

St Anne and Le Marin provide excellent if large anchorage's and there were 100's of boats there. St Anne is pretty. Le Marin is where all the facilities are. You can bus from one to the other. Many sights on the island. Filling up a hire car is worthwhile.

There are pleasant bays between St Anne and Fort De France if heading northwards. Fort De France good anchorage but the town is a disappointment.

Saint Pierre, the old capital definitely worth a visit.

Dominica is wonderful, our favourite yet. Best anchorage is Portsmouth. Visit one of the falls and do the Indian River and visit Fort Shirley especially if of a patriotic disposition. You can tie your dinghy up at the cruise ship dock believe it or not and then go in search of the security guard to let you out.The "PAYS" guys at Portsmouth are reliable and friendly.

The Saints & Guadaloupe are.... 'French' but to be fair we did not explore much.

Now in English Harbour, Antigua. We bumped into a fellow yachty in the showers who said "welcome to the coolest harbour in the world". You can see his point. We think the recurring daily fees are about $10 US for our 10 metres. That's cheaper than the moorings at Queenborough on the Medway and the surround are slightly swisher! If you come this way and can find a space in English Harbour it's much more sheltered and more compact than next door at Falmouth Harbour. It's quite amusing being so close to numerous mega yachts.

More details about where we have visited at www.arcticsmoke.blogspot.com (although not written up Antigua yet).

Fair winds (and seas)

Tom

SV Arctic Smoke

[Scot Free III]

Hello everyone,
Many thanks for all the replies and advice on moorings, etc. on the other side, much appreciated. Unfortunately, I didn't install an HF SSB set so can't join any of the Nets but I'll keep,an eye on the AIS on the way over and hope to catch up with some of you when we get there.
Have a good crossing to those yet to go and keep "chilling" to those already there.
Yours Aye
Frank

[Scot Free III]

Hi,
We left Les Galletas at 09:30GMT bound for St Lucia. You are probably well ahead of us by now. Good luck for the crossing. We will look out for you on the way over.
FWAAFS
Frank & Anne

[Steve Royal]

Hi Sean

we will not have internet after today but we will use the same times / frequencies as you gave me for your trip to Cape Verdes

6516  at 0800 and 1800

8131  at 0830 and 1830

Hope to see you there

Steve and Carolyn

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:10 PM, 'Sean Clarke' via Atlantic Crossing Group <atlantic-cr...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Steve and Caralone,

Hope all ok. Good luck with the crossing. We are looking to leave in about a week or so.

There are a number of boats waiting to leave here CV

As soon as we know some SSB times I will post to you. 

Good luck

From

All of us xx

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On 1 Feb 2017, at 09:52, Steve Royal <svtu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

We are about to leave from marina San Miguel at the south of Tenerife, possibly Thursday, and take a direct route to Barbados, with the option of staying a bit further north and making landfall in St Lucia or Antigua. I believe there are some who may be already in CV and know of one boat due there in a day or so. The winds for the next few days look good - 10 - 20 kts, but there is a large weather system to the north which looks as if it could send some big seas our way, so we might wait a day or two.

we have SSB and a delorme inreach onboard

Happy sailing

Steve and Carolyn

Tummler

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:00 AM, frankafloat <frank...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. We are currently in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the boat is almost ready to leave. Anyone planning on crossing in early February? The Group seems to have gone quiet. Perhaps you've all left😄
We plan to pass by north of the CVs but won't stop unless we have a problem.
Regards
Frank & Anne
Scot Free III

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[sean]

Hi Steve,

Great to hear from you. We have a schedule here with some people we met inc Zephyr.

Try:  07:00      6515   07:05 8130, 07:10 12359, 07:15 16540, 07:20 18837

PM

same frequency at 19:00 ,19:05,19:10,19:15 and 19:20

GMT -1 hour

We are leaving for Barbados tomorrow at about 13:00

Hope to see you there

sean
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[Sean Clarke]

Hi Steve and Caroline,

Long time no hear from you. 

Where are you now. We are back in Caribbean now and in Martinique now. 

Are you through Panama? Maybe in Aus now.

Would be great to catch up.

Hope you are both ok

Seanand pauline x

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[Steve Delong]

Hi Sean,

You sent this to the wrong Steve...

Steve

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:10 PM, 'Sean Clarke' via Atlantic Crossing Group <atlantic-cr...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Steve and Caroline,

Long time no hear from you. 

Where are you now. We are back in Caribbean now and in Martinique now. 

Are you through Panama? Maybe in Aus now.

Would be great to catch up.

Hope you are both ok

Seanand pauline x

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On 4 Feb 2017, at 10:58, Steve Royal <svtu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Sean

we will not have internet after today but we will use the same times / frequencies as you gave me for your trip to Cape Verdes

6516  at 0800 and 1800

8131  at 0830 and 1830

Hope to see you there

Steve and Carolyn

[Sean Clarke]

Dohhh

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[steve royal]

Hi to you both - I had just been wondering where you were now ! assume you (and May) survived the storm season ok ?.

We are in Newcastle but drive to Gatwick tomorrow (hire car) for our flight back to Panama, and hopefully our new rigging will arrive there from StaLok next week.

We broke one of our aft lowers on the way to Panama and had to motor for 2 days as the mast was really unsafe to sail - dealing with the dealer in the US was so much hard work we decided to fly back and sort it out here !.  StaLok were great and we got a really good price from them, even after paying £550 for FedEx shipping to Panama from the UK, We did consider carrying it back as we have 46Kg allowance each on the flight but we have found lots of other things we want/need to fill our bags including a replacement microwave, so pleased we decided to ship it over. 

Tummler is on the hardstand at Shelter Bay Marina and we have a rigger on standby to help so we hope to be back afloat by Christmas and transit the canal early next year, before heading out to the Marquesas and onwards, but knowing how quickly things happen for us, Soren and Vib could be catching up with us soon - they plan to be in Panama in March !.

We are both fine - Carolyn had a wisdom tooth out last week as she kept getting an abcess on it but much better here than mid Pacific - ad we have sorted out a few other things that we had to do here during our 6 month visit. We bought a very old rusty, noisy and smoky transit campervan on ebay ( while we were still in Panama) and have travelled Lands End to John o Groats before selling it at a small profit a few weeks ago, but looking forward to getting back now.

Would be great to catch up if you are anywhere near - we still have our Uk mobiles plus a sim card for Panama - (will let you know when I have it active again)

Fair Winds and Calm Seas

Steve and Carolyn

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On 5 December 2017 at 20:40, 'Sean Clarke' via Atlantic Crossing Group <atlantic-cr...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Steve and Caroline,

Long time no hear from you. 

Where are you now. We are back in Caribbean now and in Martinique now. 

Are you through Panama? Maybe in Aus now.

Would be great to catch up.

Hope you are both ok

Seanand pauline x

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On 4 Feb 2017, at 10:58, Steve Royal <svtu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Sean

we will not have internet after today but we will use the same times / frequencies as you gave me for your trip to Cape Verdes

6516  at 0800 and 1800

8131  at 0830 and 1830

Hope to see you there

Steve and Carolyn

[Sean Clarke]

Hi Steve and Caroline,

Wow! Sounds like you have had quite an adventure and you were lucky not to have lost the mast!.

I have dealt with sta-lock and they seem very helpful.

We haven't been back very long and left the boat in Grenada . We have since sailed up to Martinique.

You plan to go through Panama in Feb? 

Keep safe and let us know how you are getting on.

Sean and Pauline

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[Steve Royal]

February sounds about right for a transit 

steve and carolyn

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:11 PM, 'Sean Clarke' via Atlantic Crossing Group <atlantic-cr...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Steve and Caroline,

Wow! Sounds like you have had quite an adventure and you were lucky not to have lost the mast!.

I have dealt with sta-lock and they seem very helpful.

We haven't been back very long and left the boat in Grenada . We have since sailed up to Martinique.

You plan to go through Panama in Feb? 

Keep safe and let us know how you are getting on.

Sean and Pauline

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On 5 Dec 2017, at 19:51, steve royal <yachtph...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi to you both - I had just been wondering where you were now ! assume you (and May) survived the storm season ok ?.

We are in Newcastle but drive to Gatwick tomorrow (hire car) for our flight back to Panama, and hopefully our new rigging will arrive there from StaLok next week.

We broke one of our aft lowers on the way to Panama and had to motor for 2 days as the mast was really unsafe to sail - dealing with the dealer in the US was so much hard work we decided to fly back and sort it out here !.  StaLok were great and we got a really good price from them, even after paying £550 for FedEx shipping to Panama from the UK, We did consider carrying it back as we have 46Kg allowance each on the flight but we have found lots of other things we want/need to fill our bags including a replacement microwave, so pleased we decided to ship it over. 

Tummler is on the hardstand at Shelter Bay Marina and we have a rigger on standby to help so we hope to be back afloat by Christmas and transit the canal early next year, before heading out to the Marquesas and onwards, but knowing how quickly things happen for us, Soren and Vib could be catching up with us soon - they plan to be in Panama in March !.

We are both fine - Carolyn had a wisdom tooth out last week as she kept getting an abcess on it but much better here than mid Pacific - ad we have sorted out a few other things that we had to do here during our 6 month visit. We bought a very old rusty, noisy and smoky transit campervan on ebay ( while we were still in Panama) and have travelled Lands End to John o Groats before selling it at a small profit a few weeks ago, but looking forward to getting back now.

Would be great to catch up if you are anywhere near - we still have our Uk mobiles plus a sim card for Panama - (will let you know when I have it active again)

Fair Winds and Calm Seas

Steve and Carolyn

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[Sean Clarke]

Hi Steve and Caroline ,

How are you both? Have you made it through Panama yet? 

Hope you got the boat fixed and all is well with you.

Take care

Sean

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[steve royal]

Hi Sean

We have had our repairs done, and broken a few more things since, but we are now in Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia after a very slow 4000 mile passage from Panama, and hope to leave here next week for Tahiti, just a short hop of 800 miles !!.

Internet here is very poor but we will try to keep in touch as we get better signals.

Hope all is well with you and Pauline

Steve and Carolyn

[Sean Clarke]

Hi Steve,

Congratulations , delighted that you have made it ! 

Glad you are safe. We met Vib and Sören in Martinique a few days ago.

Lifted out yesterday all work now.

Why such a hurry to get to next place? Enjoy it for a while .

Great to hear from you. 

Take care

Sean and Pauline 

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[amelz...@yahoo.com]

Hi Steve,

More congratulations from Zephyr!

We are very pleased (and somewhat jealous!) to hear that you have arrived safely after such a long passage even if a few thing broke on the boat.

I hope both you and Carolyn are both keeping in robust health.

Is the cockpit garden still thriving?

I remember you buying the Delorne tracker, do you have a link so that we can follow your progress?

We are at home as  have back and hip issues.

Best regards,

Graham and Gillian

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[joanne cameron]

Congratulations to you both and lovely to hear that you're both safe and well. We look forward to meeting up in Oz but not for a while. We are in Virginia having spent time in the ICW, met up with Steve and Helen on Miles  and they saw Steve and Dee so a bit of a Mindello reunion. We fly back home to Gibraltar in a few weeks. 

Lovely to hear your news and how did your French Polynesian families get on with the building bricks! 

Jo and Stefan and Bo the dog

Radiant Spirit 

Kind regards 

[steve royal]

hi to you 

Sad to hear that you have back & hip problems.

We are both fine although Carolyn is still recovering from a fall when we were hit by a big swell. Sadly our herb garden didnt like the climate or the soil in Panama, so we will wait until we get to Oz before replanting as it would not pass quarantine.

Our tracker is.  share.garmin.com/StephenRoyal.

Best wishes

Steve &Carolyn

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[Sean]

Hi Steve and Caroline,

How’s it going. I can see you are at sea from your tracker. Not sure how much further to go for you.

Good luck

Sean & Pauline x

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[steve royal]

 We finally made it to Bundaberg !

we did have some issues on the way, mainly light winds and big swells, along with some fuel and electronics problems, the worst was when both autopilots failed on the same day and we had to hand steer for 3 days - fortunate that we had taken on a crew member for that leg - 800 miles from the Marquesa isands to Tahiti. we replaced one autopilot and then repaired both of the existing ones after we discovered a seized coupling and a broken casting in our steering linkages which we had replaced / repaired by an engineering company in Papeete.

We will be heading down to Victoria in a week or so to visit family, and Tummler will be having a few months rest in the storage yard.

I am assuming that we already told you about the broken rigging on the way to Panama, which is why it took us so long to get through ( we went back to the UK and had 6 months in a campervan doing Lands end and the Scilly isles to John o groats.

Hope all is well with you

Steve and Carolyn

[Kay]

Hi All
Sondela is leaving Faro today bound for Las Palmas. We will be listening on 14303 kHz on the SSB at 08.00h and 18.00h each day.
Safe sailing
John and Kim