Morro Jable to Puerto de Radazul
28th November 2007
We weighed anchor at 09:45 in light winds and decided to motor sail until we picked up stronger winds off Punta Jandia at the south west tip of Fuerteventura. "Aphrodite" had already left but we passed her shortly afterwards.
At 12:30, with Punta Jandia astern, we turned the engine off and proceeded under full sail with N3 winds.
"Aphrodite" is about the same size as "Kiriwina" but half the weight. She came powering past us at 14:00.
Throughout the afternoon we made modest progress. The winds eased to around 5-8 knots so the yankee and staysail were furled and replaced with the ghosting genoa. This gave us about 3-4 knots. After a couple of hours the wind increased and veered to NNE 13 knots. The genoa was taken down and replaced with the yankee and staysail.
Thereafter we had good sailing with speeds in excess of 5 knots through until the early hours.
29th November 2007
An attempt to photograph the lights of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria as we passed just after midnight. Not very successful. It's hard enough getting a good image at night. Even more so from a bouncing boat.
By 02:20 the wind had eased to around 5kn and we were making less than 1kn. At this speed we risked arriving off Tenerife after dark and so we proceeded under engine and main.
There was quite a bit of traffic in the Gran Canaria /Tenerife channel.
The summit of "El Teide" on Tenerife viewed from about 20 miles out.
A Norwegian LNG tanker and a Norwegian fast ferry.
At 11:20 we were able to continue under sail alone and arrived off Puerto de Radazul at 14:00. Tomas had phoned ahead and we were assisted into our finger berth by marina staff and all fast at 14:15. It then rained quite heavily.
Passage time 28 hours. Log 122.1 miles.
We weighed anchor at 09:45 in light winds and decided to motor sail until we picked up stronger winds off Punta Jandia at the south west tip of Fuerteventura. "Aphrodite" had already left but we passed her shortly afterwards.
At 12:30, with Punta Jandia astern, we turned the engine off and proceeded under full sail with N3 winds.
"Aphrodite" is about the same size as "Kiriwina" but half the weight. She came powering past us at 14:00.
Throughout the afternoon we made modest progress. The winds eased to around 5-8 knots so the yankee and staysail were furled and replaced with the ghosting genoa. This gave us about 3-4 knots. After a couple of hours the wind increased and veered to NNE 13 knots. The genoa was taken down and replaced with the yankee and staysail.
Thereafter we had good sailing with speeds in excess of 5 knots through until the early hours.
29th November 2007
An attempt to photograph the lights of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria as we passed just after midnight. Not very successful. It's hard enough getting a good image at night. Even more so from a bouncing boat.
By 02:20 the wind had eased to around 5kn and we were making less than 1kn. At this speed we risked arriving off Tenerife after dark and so we proceeded under engine and main.
There was quite a bit of traffic in the Gran Canaria /Tenerife channel.
The summit of "El Teide" on Tenerife viewed from about 20 miles out.
A Norwegian LNG tanker and a Norwegian fast ferry.
At 11:20 we were able to continue under sail alone and arrived off Puerto de Radazul at 14:00. Tomas had phoned ahead and we were assisted into our finger berth by marina staff and all fast at 14:15. It then rained quite heavily.
Passage time 28 hours. Log 122.1 miles.