Puerto Banus
Buesnel
Wed 13 May 2009 20:10
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36:29.21N 4:57.11W
We are in Puerto Banus - the St Tropez of Spain.
Sorry for lack of blogs - needed a break. Now blog refreshed although back home
tomorrow for 3 days for blog will continue from Sunday evening with a new crew
aboard.
First some photos...
 Leaving the Rock behind...
 We have all the kit now for catching 50lbs Tuna -
sadly no bites today
 Just moored up Puerto Banus - that beer tasted
good
 What are Lol and Clive up to? (Boat song
playing)
 Looking along the quay towards the trendy bars
(there is a stip round the port where everying sems to be driving a Ferrari,
Lambo, Bentley, Porsche etc...
 Looking north towards some stunning
scenery
We had an interesting day today. Started very well
- we left Gib at 10am with a forecast of 4-5 winds and thought we would get
round the headland early.
We got two sea fishing rods out with lures and
slowed down to 4 knots (just a small jib) and trawled for 3 hours. We changed
lures, spoke to the rods, swore at the rods - but nothing! Is this the Lol
effect - he has fished on every holiday for 10 years and never caught anything
or was it too rough, wrong time of day - who knows. Better luck next time?
The wind steadily increased to F7 as we were coming
into Banus and then as straight F8 as I was trying to moor against the visitors
pontoon and fuel berth. This was an intersting challenge and after 2 attempts
made it with no damage to the boat - I shouted at the crew a bit (I have to
admit) but they did a good job and told me I did too - even the fuel berth man
said in Spanish it was tricky and wind unexpected. We doubled up on lines
as we watched 36knots of wind rip through.
After falling over at the cost of mooring here (110
pounds an night!!) we looked at our original berth and found that the dock was
10 foot up from the water - impossible for us to get on or off the boat. So we
negotiated with a rather reluctant berthing master who gave us a new berth. Only
problem was this was a stern to mooring and there ws still 14 knots of wind on
the deam and I have no bow thruster(broken) . So was reversing in and lost the
bow, but Lol (hero of the day) was quick with the dock line, ran it up the
bow and held it tight - we were then fine. After a two man effort heaving in on
the line (Lol and Clive) and straightening up we cracked open some
well deserved beers - another lovely evening in the Med - you would
not have known it was blowing 36 knots 2 hours earlier.
We are going to pose in a few trendy bars for a
hour and then come back for some food (Salmon and brocilli - now a heathly
eating boat, apart from the beers!)
Tomorrow morning we are going back on ourselves to
Estepona (11 miles) - they have moorings for 33 pounds a night - and eXhilarance
says she does not like these flash and false marina - she wants to
go back to better value, she is a good girl.
Need a shower now, rest of crew ready....
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