Crew!?!

Had an e mail from Rob yesterday to advise he is not now coming with us as he has accepted a place on an ARC boat as they leave later and the timings suit him better which is fair enough. Oh well we still have a few possibles out there. Received an e mail from John Martin friend of Paul Sowman who is keen to do another Atlantic Crossing (has done 3 already!) so this morning have  e mailed back for more details regarding his availability as he is in Germany at present. Have another couple of prospects from the ARC Cruisers Forum who we are waiting to hear from too - oh and Brent may have someone also! So...............hopefully it will not be too long before we know where we stand with regards to crew.

It is possible to do the crossing with just three of us and indeed many couples do the crossing on their own without difficulty so we shall just have to wait and see how things progress. Just frustrating that is all when we thought we had everything sorted!! Oh well as the saying goes 'best laid plans....' and all that!!

Anyway where are we? Oh yes back in San sebastian on La Gomera having had a funny old sail across with wind then no wind then strong winds just as we approached La Gomera! The Marina have put us in exactly the same berth we had before but this time there is no surge like ther was last time when we were here with Jenny & Bill so the boat did not dance about all night thank goodness! We went out to eat last night (later than intended as Peter saw Saltwhistle 111 was in and went across to talk to Tony about his rigging) so an hour later we walked to the lovely sea front restaurant only to find it was closed! So back into town for a different venue and found a small local place which gave us a good dinner at Eur50 for the 3 of us including beer and wine was not bad.

Staying put today as we are all pretty tired and have another night booked in the Marina. Maybe do some exploring this afternoon. There is another HR42 next to us with a lovely English couple called Andy and Sue who are our age and very interesting to talk to them as they have done quite a bit of ocean sailing but on another boat as they have only had their HR42 since January. The boat is an HR42E and is called Spruce.