The Captain's Daughters http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:44:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en Tall Ships 2008: Race Two http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=94 http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=94#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:51:44 +0000 admin http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=94 Race two began full of anticipation. We held our spinnaker for 36 hours of strong winds aware that most of our class, heavier and larger boats, would be pulling out in front. The waypoint put us in 5th place and still flying our spinnaker with the wind dropping off then dying entirely. We all brightened up as it filled in again from in front a light south easterly perfect for Assarain II. A stowaway bird landed on the deck and we affectionately named it Penelope before making it a nest from an orange juice carton and measuring our time to the line as 20 hours to go. I imagined the heavier boats slowing down as Assarain II picked up speed and danced over the waves catching up. The evening report put us in 1st place again. It was not to last.That night two tragedies occurred almost simultaneously, lending evidence to my suspicions that birds are bad luck to boats. Penelope died at 03.00 hours and at 03.10 I emerged on deck to check the trim and smile at our speed when there was a soft twang. The mast began to bend backwards towards the deck. A solid metal pin at the top of the forestay had sheared, signalling the end of the race. We secured the mast with the spinnaker halyards and breathed a sign of relief that we had not lost the mast.The crew were silent in the morning when I called race control to retire from the race and the sulks continued all day until a more urgent problem took our minds off our disappointment. We did not have enough fuel to get to Den Helder. Using our satellite phone to call for assistance we learned the rest of the fleet were having troubles as well: Clyde Challenger was taking on water and required a lifeboat. Jolie Brise came to our rescue, still racing, they hove-to alongside and threw us a line down which they passed 100 litres of fuel in cans. It was enough to limp back to port with.

]]> http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?feed=rss2&p=94 Tall Ships 2008 http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=78 http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=78#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:53:34 +0000 admin http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=78 The Captain’s Daughters have a boat entered for the race and are accepting entries. Check out the ‘Tall Ships 2008′ page for more details. There are only a limited number of places available and these are being allocated on a first come- first serve basis so contact us as soon as possible to ensure your place as crew. 

Also, check out ‘Future Events to see the plans for this year’.

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Welcome to The Captain’s Daughters brand new website!

]]> http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?feed=rss2&p=54 Recent Events - Our First Trophy http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=51 http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=51#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:20:57 +0000 admin http://www.thecaptainsdaughters.com/?p=51 October 2007 saw The Captain’s Daughters organise two boats to enter the ASTO Small Ships Race in Cowes. We were awarded the Richard Langhorn trophy for ‘Spirit of the race’ due to the number of young people we encouraged to attend the event.

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