Leaving Isla Graciosa
Jigsaw
Thu 25 Oct 2007 10:24
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Been anchored at Playa Francesca since Sunday, a
lovely place but we were subject to rather strong winds that made the anchorage
rather uncomfortable to say the least,and landing impossible. We had to run
anchor watches on three of the nights that we were there. At times it was a
trifle marginal to say the least. Boats were bouncing around with gusto, but
thankfully, despite the strongish wind, no swell or waves of any significance
got into the anchorage. It was a beautiful location and when the wind did
ease, as it did most days for a few hours, the swimming and snorkelling was
first class. Wonderfully clear warm blue water, with a reef close by that
was teeming with fish of many shapes and colours.
We ran out of water though, which made life a
trifle difficult, but our friends Stephan and Tanya gave us water from their
boat's water maker so we survived. Also had a slight problem with lack of
electricity on board, mainly due I suspect to letting the battery charge go down
so far as we were sailing for 5 days without using the engine at all. Got that
rectified yesterday and now all systems go. Good job the crew on Jigsaw are a
hardy bunch or they may have complained!! Good lessons learnt for future long
passages though.
I sat up last night as the nearly full moon passed
over the anchorage, it lit it up all night long, almost bright enough to read
by. Staring sat the moon again, as I do rather frequently, I was impressed, best
moon so far, I hope you saw it too!!
Finally got the anchor up at about 08:40 UT, today,
Thursday 25th October, it was very very
deeply dug into the sand. Now motoring towards Playa Blanca on the South
of Lanzarote where we are booked into Marina Rubicon, to clean
boat and crew all of whom are a bit grubby, fill up with water and food and get
a few jobs done on the boat. Currently in position 29 11'N and 13 34'W, 25C
and barometric pressure of 1016, no wind!
Jigsaw.
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