Photos of the passage from Lagos to Las Galletas

Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Thu 28 Oct 2010 18:26
Thursday 28th October.
 
Kay and Ted are back on board Moorglade in the Marina del Sur, Las Galletas, Tenerife. Our flight out here from Birmingham seemed to be going well, Guy dropped us at the airport in good time, the baggage drop agreed our bags were exactly on the maximum weight, we boarded on time getting seats together and then it was announced there were delays due to French industrial action, but not to worry because the original delay of three and a half hours was coming down and they had got us on board to be ready to take off asap. Actually it was two hours before we left the stand. Pity we could not have had the extra time in bed as, after a late night on Tuesday with the keep fitters (thanks for the send off, I enjoyed the evening) and far too much to do on Wednesday we could have done with more sleep. Still it is good to be back on board, the sky is cloudless, the wind a light westerly and the temperature 28C.
Now I am reunited with my laptop I can add some pics of the passage down from Lagos to Galletas.
As usual we only took photos when the conditions were easy. We really must try for a more representative photo record when we cross the Atlantic.
 
 
                       
 
The Portugal to Tenerife crew                                                       Our first passenger
 
 
                                            
 
 
John has another apple while his pants dry                                     Kay in the galley
on the guardrail (don't ask)
 
 
                
 
 
The calm conditions make dinner more civilised                      Sunset shortly after dinner
 
 
 
                       
 
Second passenger lands on the aft deck                                        Beaky was not impressed with the rasher of bacon
 
 
 
                       
 
 
 
A last attempt to land on deck before he ditched                            We had some heavy showers (actually that is what happened to the pants)
 
 
                       
 
 
The sun rising over Grand Canaria after our last night at sea.            A well earned cold beer and paella for lunch in the nearest bar.
 
 
The pictures one takes on a passage never seem to show the issues but nobody had time to use a camera when we were hand steering in 40 kts of wind and lots of pics of the steadily falling fuel gauge would not have been very interesting.
 
EJW.