Dec. 28, 2007 - Happy Xmas!

Merry Xmas to everyone!    Gee it's great to be back home!  Had a lovely week in Scotland visiting family for Xmas and great day sailing on Fleur, brother-in-laws Vega 27. What a great sailing ground it is up there, north of Glasgow. Sea lochs and mountains galore. Bit chilly though, nice to be back to tee shirt and shorts. So still in Peurto Calero, nice enough and has free wifi but time to move on I feel. Battled again today with roller reefing. Most definately on it's last legs but hopefully should hold together until Las Palmas where money will need to be spent on a new one, amongst other upgrades. But today this is where I live:

Had a beer with Henry earlier, he is off for a little sail tomorrow, 2904 miles to St Lucia. Henry's on nice island packet 35, singlehanded and at 74 is slowly finishing off a circumnavigation. Hope for us all yet. 

Henry leaving to cross the Atlantic to St Lucia. Fair winds, Henry!

So I might move me ass tomorrow, tempted to spend new year in La Graciosa. It's a little island just north of Lanzarote, no paved roads, just sand and sounds lovely. WInd might be a bit on the nose though, one doesn't like to sail upwind so we'll see what the gods of wind are up to in the morning. Then I shall head over to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria for a while, get stuck into boatwork. New rigging to fit, new battaries to buy and fit and pages of other bits. Then where?????  Oh so can't decide but Atlantic is winning at the moment. Caribbean, trade winds and snorkling.

Sounds great. But why not visit Cape Verdes and west Africa before heading over, Oh I don't know!   Shall sort boat first and wait for path to reveal itself. Added advantage is Las Palmas has about 3 weeks of carnival in Jan/Feb. Bring it on!!!    Happy New Year to everyone!!!