Leaving Gibraltar with Ben
Guardian Spirit
Dave and Elaine
Tue 10 Nov 2009 13:27
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36:08.0'N 5:24.0'W
10 November 2009
At last the forecast is good to go! Having
said a sad farewell to our lovely next door neighbours Michael and Michelle and
1 yr old Charlotte we left Marina Bay, Gibraltar and headed for the
Canaries. Dave, myself and we were lucky enough to have my son Ben with
us, he'd managed to organise his work and leave his family, Marie, Joe and
Tess.
The forecast was 15 knots of westerly wind so we
were expecting at least 30 knots going past Tarifa, the windiest place in
Europe, which is why there are so many wind generators.
The straits were very kind to us Dave had plotted a
good route through going fairly close to the Spanish coast, in fact we were
overtaking some super yachts who had taken a middle
route.
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