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Island Kea II arrived in Las Palmas about 10am on Wednesday 3rd of October.

We left Lanzarote about midday on Tuesday planning to sail slowly and arrive in the early hours of Wednesday as we did not want to arrive in complete darkness in a place we had never  been to before.

Typical, winds were very favourable and even though we reefed the Jib, we were still doing 7 kts at times - typical when you want to go slowly you go fast and if you need to go fast  you never can.

At 2am it was clear that we were going to arrive about 4am so we hove to until 6am.  For those of you not familiar with sailing vocab, this means stalling the boat by pointing it into the wind with the jib the wrong way so the boat is basically stopped.

We had a wonderful acrabatic display from a large and small dolphoins, we think there was a bit of training going on.  They really seem to know how to have fun.

It was very difficult to get any sleep though. Trying to sleep in our cabin was a problem.  The metal watertanks are under the bed and as they were full water was sloshing to the top and making a lot of noice.  The waves were rolling the boat side to side so not sliding out of the bed was an art. When we are sailing the steering mechanism makes a lot of noice and being under the cockpit means that every step taken by people on deck is very loud. This has made us think seriously about the reality of using our aft cabin on the Atlantic crossing. 

Las Palmas is living up the expectation.  It is a very large commercial harbout, not a tourist designar marina like Marina Rubicon was.  We are on pontoon 17 which is not one of the most diserable locations, but it is fun to have a lot of boats around us who are also doing the ARC.  Electricity and Water is off now as they are replacing all the units on our pontoon but hopefully this will be on again by the end of the day, otherwise we will need to run the generator which woudl be annoying having paid for mains electric.