Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Malua
Harry Watson Smith
Thu 15 Nov 2012 08:23
Malua is at 28:07.847N 15:25.485W at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 14/11/2012
We have finally arrived at the Canaries, the setting off point to cross the Atlantic. It is a big city and we are anchored within the large harbour with lots of cruise ships, merchant vessels and the odd visiting US navy vessel. The anchorage is crowed with a huge variety of yachts. Red, green, bright yellow, grey, white and all shades in between. There are some production boats but most are one-offs or not well known designs. The anchorage is just outside the main marina containing 250 ARC yachts all getting inspected to meet their standard of seaworthiness. Today we will take the RIB in to walk the dock and top up the provisions.