The wind was blowing at near gale force and without a working bow thruster the approach and entering a narrow berth was difficult. In such cicumstances using speed is the best way to keep you on track. We got in OK and got the thumbs up from the Marinero who was there to meet us.
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| Marina Santa Cruz |
But thats about all good to be said. The area is very noisy.
Immediately to the north of the marina is the ferry terminal in/out of Tenerife and also the cruise terrminal, where up to 5 large cruise ships were moored. As none of them were on shore power the rumble of diesel generators went on all night. At daytime containers and trucks were moved around with a constant beep-beep as they reversed.
Our pontoon was a bit of walk from the Marina office and facilities building. The toilet and shower facilities was poor. Only 2 toilets in the men's room was working. Showers was crampt and dirty.
There was a laundry, but only one of 3 machine was working.
The pontoon had a faulty electricity net and the main fuse for the entire pontoon tripped seval times a day. There was a wifi system, but you had to buy airtime. Problem was, it was very unreliable,
as the accesspoint kept dropping out and the lease time was very short.
The Marina is right in the town center and we went for walks and some shopping.
We also took the tram up to the old town of La Laguna. It was the old provincial capital for many years and it has many houses that dates back to the 1500's. Now, the area and many of those houses sadly had turned to be a tourist trap with high end brand stores on the groundfloor.
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| La Laguna |
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| From bell tower of local church |
After 11 days the weather finally gave us an oportunity to sail accross to GranCanary island.
We departed at 0530 Thursday the 14th November for a 9 hr crossing to Puerto de Mogan.
The sea was very rolly with waves up to 2 meters and swell 3-4 meters.
It setteled a bit as we reach deeper water an hour off the coast.
Wind was NE 10-15 kts when we left but increased to 25-30 half way accross. As we got close to GC we got in lee from the NE wind and withing one minute the wind dropped from 20 to less than 5 knots.
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| Puerto de Mogan a busy tourist area |
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| Harbour inlet and port controll building |
We arrived Puerto de Mogan at 1500 and was directed to berth space on the pontoon on the inside of the southern break water.
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| Mooring "med-style" using Lazy lines. |
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| Great to be in a nice marina |
It's a good marina. Calm and quiet. Very good to get a good night sleep again.
We will stay here for at least a week.
Mogan is a very popular tourist place and we could here Norwegian and Swedish spoken all the time in the restaurant area. Friday was market day here and lots of stands all along the piers and in town.
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