Next January 7th - 14th 2006. Flying from Cork to gran Canaria

Hugely successful trip to the Canaries in January 2005.

We flew from Cork Airport to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) and bused to Puerto Mogan.

Day one: shake down sail along the SW coast of Gran Canaria to get all crew settled and get to know the boat. Plenty of tacking, gybing and MOB recoveries in 22 degrees!

Day two: early start for crew as all mustered on deck at 0430!Warm balmy night with spectacular sky of stars, unfortunately not much breeze so a lot of motor sailing to keep up our VMG. Not long after dawn we were greeted by many dolphins playing around our bow wave, later in the afternoon we were treated to the sight of whales!Arrived in San Sebastian on the island of la Gomera at 1800.

Day three: Some crew went sailing along the coast of La Gomera and others explored the Nation Park (INLAND!!), some retracted Columbus' foot steps before he set sail to "discover a short cut to India"!!

Day four: lazy morning and late breakfast then we headed down the coast for Santiago.

Day Five: another early start for crew as we departed San Sebastian at 0300. Beautiful starry night, with shooting stars and phosphorescence sparkling in the water!Arrived Puerto Rico at 1730

Day Six: Sailed along the coast of Gran Canaria doing lots of sailing maneouvres, tacking, gybing, heave too, MOB, lying etc with a, by now, very slick crew!

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