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Thursday, November 08, 2007

LANZAROTE

A 5 day passage from Gibralter to Lanzarote gave us a good downwind sail. This enabled us to use twin head sails poled out on the Twistle rig. With Ferdy (Hydrovane) steering this gave us a comfortable hands off passage for most of the way. There was an interesting contact with an American warship one night who appeared to be on a collision course with us. We approached Lanzarote in the early hours of the morning and had to cross the bows of the QE2. Puerto Calero marina is very smart (note the brass bollards). Lanzarote is very arid and volcanic but fascinating. It is so different from Tenerife. There are hundreds of volcanos on the island and the plant life is very interesting but sparse. We undertook a 15K walk along the coast and up a baranca to a white mountain village. The views were stunning.






















































5 Comments:

Blogger Tom Bloomfield said...

American warship! Ram it and sink it.

11:37 AM  
Blogger Simon Rowley said...

A golden knob, ooh errr

2:47 PM  
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2:47 PM  
Blogger helen marks said...

No Consultant comments from me!! Enjoy x

12:41 PM  
Blogger Syed&Parween said...

Hello

Looks like you are some where in the middle of Atlantic. Nothing new since November. We wish you a safe journey and arrival at your next port of call. I think that is going to be some where in West Indies.

Let us know how you are getting on. I am sure you will have a good Christmas with your kids.

SYED & Perween from Dundee

6:12 AM  

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