Yacht Aditi

Anyone at the ARC Welcome Party 2013 will remember the Pink Panther. We were in a bar, no, no, surely it was a pizza restaurant, a couple of days back when the Pink Panther was on mainland TV doing the same act shaking his tail standing about eight feet tall. It was interesting to see the whole bar totally absorbed by this guy and they looked at each other not knowing what to make of it. Could we stand up in the corner and say ‘yeah we know those guys they are absolutely brilliant, we’ve seen this act’…..ehhhhh, nope. see

We picked up a photo kindly sent to us by a spectator who was on the wall as we left Las Palmas and this is almost the opposite of the WCC ARC’s own photo. That’s pretty cool;   Going out through the harbour exit with 3,000nm ahead of us was a launch into the unknown and the send off meant emotions were running high. Pity we were launching straight into a cold front! Our thoughts on this in the future; head for Mindelo. It’s fun and the floating marina bar served us the best wahoo and chips with hot chilli

Can nobody sort out an exhaust elbow? Our original gave out off Trafalgar Point on the way to Gibraltar when the exhaust clamp joining two sections split. The sections were then too badly corroded to re-join. So we were quoted about 4k euros with a leadtime of maybe never by the local boatyard in La Linea. Instead we had Lancing Marine  make a new elbow for about £500 gbp which was supposed to be one piece but turned up as two. The new exhaust lasted a few engine hours when the clamp between the two parts again sheared and we

A trip to Coruna art museum. What a great experience to have the whole four storeys to ourselves.

    Seems like it’s happy juice at least. Something’s always going on in the town square, this time for the whole of August. We won’t be around for it but Madness are headlining next Friday. And lastly our favourite steak house. Well a grill in fact supported by excellent local tapas. Great atmosphere, extremely busy at about 2pm, and with steak cooked a-pointe in 5 minutes flat for 8 euros it’s no surprise it’s busy.

Terceira to La Coruna, waiting for the wind and wondering what the night will bring.

It’s an active place – a day in the life of – actually it happens to be Galicia day on the day of our arrival which is the biggest day of the year!