34.20.866N 07.45.596W
JENNY
Alan Franklin/ Lynne Gane
Mon 29 Oct 2007 12:37
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We are now sailing south towards Lanarote just off
the coast of Africa approaching Casablanca,(any Bogart fans out there)We had a
discussion about the name of the bar in the film can you guess, its
Ricks.
At the moment the sea is moderate with a Northerly
breeze of 16/20 knts which is blowing us South at 7 knts which will give us 150
mls a day.Lanzarote is about 3 days away from us.
We had problem with the gearbox on leaving
Sotogrande where we could only engage forward gear so we decided to carry on to
Gibraltar where all the rally boats were assembling for the departure on the
28th Oct and have it repaired there.Between the Spanish customs and the carriers
TNT they managed to make a complete hash of delivering it to us and it didn't
arrive until the Wednesday evening and we were leaving on the Sunday giving us
not a lot of time to run trials on it.anyway between the lot of us we had the
new box fitted in three hours that evening,and tested the following day,it seems
ok my spanner was at the ready.
Mind you if it wasn't for Westways(the suppliers of
the boat I don't think we would have got it in time to leave with the rest of
the fleet they were brilliant )
The boat is going really well and the weather is
great Blue Sky's fair wind and a relatively smooth sea what more could you
want.This is really the start of our adventure and thanks to all the crew she is
in very good shape and looks extremely smart at was remarked by the rally
control we slipped our lines in Gibraltar.
By the way if you want to know what its like to
berth a boat in the marina without reverse try parking in a multi story car park
you have never been in without brakes and reverse.
That's all for now
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