All Change

OK so we popped out for a sail last Sunday and spent a few hours beating to windward to get to the anchorage and then Peter says the wind is coming out of the East which will make the anchorage untenable so why are we doing this?!! So at 4pm we were back in the Marina tied up in our berth!!

Yesterday was  SO hot as the temperature touched 34 degrees C it was hotter than the BVI! Saw a sweet little baby turtle pop it's head up in the Marina just behind the boat - that is the second time we have seen it so it must live here. Went for a walk along the coast path yesterday and everywhere you look it is all black volcanic rocks and sand but they do try and pu some sort of path in and fence it all off neatly as it runs alongside the golf course so it has to look good!

Monday afternoon we spotted another HR 42F called Saltwhistle 111 come into the Marina and realised they were taking part in the ARC so went across to introduce ourselves to Tony and Rachel the owners. We ended up inviting them over to Trompeta that evening for drinks and they stayed for supper too. It is always interesting to see how oither people adapt their boat and inside Saltwhistle 111 it is a different layout as they have two armchairs rather than the sea berth/setee that we have. Saltwhistle is a year newer than Trompeta and they have spent quite a bit replacing things (well they have owned their boat 3 years so have had time!!) and the end result is a smart boat. We said our goodbyes that evening as they were planning to leave in the morning to sail to La Gomera and stay in San Sebastian so we told them about the surge in the Marina and hope they got a better berth than we did!

Tuesday we received a disappointing e mail from one of our crew Mick saying he cannot now spare the time to do the crossing with us :-( So back to the drawing board again with only 10 days to go - yikes! Fortunately we remembered Jack (who sailed from Hamble to Tenerife in August with us) was looking to do an Atlantic crossing with the ARC so we sent him an e mail and await his reply. In the meantime we are trawling the cruisers forum to see if there are any suitable candidates there. Have found a few hopefuls but most cannot spare time until November and we want to leave by the end of October. Oh well will just have to wait and see what responses we get.