Geir managed to get a bad cold while in Gran Tarajal.
Our sail to Las Palmas therefore got postponed a few days.
The past week things was pretty dramatic at times here. Just accross from our berth the local coastguard has their station. They have been out 3 times this week resquing migrants coming over on overloaded boats from Morocco. The weather has been nice with calm winds and thats when the migrants come.
When they arrive they are met by Red Cross on the quay for registration and heslth checks. They get bussed off to camps where their requests for assylum will be processed.
Most of them are sent to Spanish mainland or returned to their homeland.
We finally got underway to Las Palmas. We departed from Gran Tarajal late friday (19.11) and sailed over night the 78 NM to Las Palmas. We arrived saturday at sunrise.
We anchored just north of the marina. We were promissed a berth in the marina from monday - as by then the fleet of 150+ sailboats taking part of the ARC race had departed. At one point wind picked up and we and a few other boats dragged the anchor. We did a couple of new anchoring attempts in a less exposed part of the anchorage and found good holding. We slept peacefully the next two nights.
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| Alcaravaneras - anchorage, Las Palmas |
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| No - that’s not Santa |
Monday morning Geir went into the marina office where a long queue already had developed.
After 45 minutes we had received a berth and paid to stay for the next 8 days.
Back out to the boat, dinghy & motor up on deck and we sailed into our berth.
We will stay here the next days and sail straight from here to our "winter-berth" in Puerto Mogan.
Our berth is located right by Sailors bar, toiletts/showers and a coin laundrette.
So were finally couldhave all our clothes washed.
We have had visits from our friend Per - LA7FAA - who is visiting Las Palmas to survey a boat
he is interrested in buying. It looks like the deal might come through for him, but he says there is lots of "Red tape" when buying a boat with a Spanish flag.
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| Great meeting Per, LA7FAA, here at Sailors Bar |
Have had a few radio skeds up to Norway around 0930Z on 18.141. Very variable conditions.
While we are in the marina even worse conditions.
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