San Antonio - chance meeting with Chanti
Moxie - Beck Family Adventure
Mike, Denise, Asia and Aranya Beck
Tue 26 Jul 2011 21:28
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San Antonio 38.58.61N 001.18.20E
We came to San Antonio to get the generator fixed and
spent a night in the marina, it cost EUR 143 for one night! Aye carumba!
Included was a free gift, but you couldn't drink it so it didn't dull the
pain.
 Asia with our 'free' gift.
Chanti again.
Having escaped the marina we set anchor in San Antonio
harbour and set to hanging washing that Denise had spent all morning getting
done at the marina. We heard a whistle looked around and saw Carol and Craig on
Chanti anchored two boats away. We knew they were headed for the islands but
there are 4 islands and hundreds of anchorages here so it'd be possible to spend
years not seeing each other, bumping into them is quite a surprise. Carol and
Craig have great stories to tell having built and then circumnavigated 30 years
ago on Chanti with their son Skye.
 Chanti in San Antonio
3C's had a lot of drama leaving Gibraltar this
year, they got into thick fog and the propeller shaft coupling parted leaving
them becalmed in fog in Gibraltar straights with tide at 1.5 knots and water
gushing in through the propeller shaft tube. Craig dove down to find the shaft
hanging a few feet out of the boat managed to secure it with a rope just before
it popped right out and headed for the bottom (he was still hanging onto the
rope) and then get towed back into La Linea. If that was not drama enough
they were being towed by a catamaran and the towing bridle managed to get
entangled in the propeller, thank goodness catamarans have dual engines.
Chanti has set off for Mallorca, next time we'll make a plan to meet
them.
 We sent the cabin boys off with a formal invitation to tea.
Chanti.
San Antonio
In San Antonio you are far more likely to hear English than Spanish being
spoken. The place is crawling with young Brits here for a week in the
sun. Every evening a procession of sunset cruise boats leave the harbour
with rave music blaring, people singing and screaming and they head out to
drink, party see the sunset and returning 2 or 3 hours later. I guess
there are 60 - 80 people on each boat and it is EUR25 per head! Meanwhile
the sunset looks pretty good from right here in the harbour - or am I just
getting old? On return from the cruise they will head off to one of the
many clubs, Ibiza is the nightclub capital of the world.
 Sunset Ibiza
Walking around town it is predominantly cafes / restaurants. And
groups of girls with Bikinis on, and boys without shirts. Lots of boobs, bum
cheeks, torsos, muscles and tattoo's are displayed, it's a competitive
market out there, you're in town for a very short time so I guess one needs to
display one's wares to the best effect possible. In San Antonio it's very
rare to see.. couples (it's groups of boys or groups of girls), girls with
more than two items of clothing on, boys with more than one piece.
Looking at club door prices it's around Euro 55 just to get in.
The town is very pretty with plenty of trees around the place, we'd like to
move on though to a perfect anchorage for more diving and perhaps some fishing
(I've bought a speargun and Apnea fins so need to rapidly improve my diving
skills to justify the investment) but we need to wait again for the generator
man. It does give us a chance to catch up on some boat jobs, blog etc
though but the kids are getting bored and restless. The water is
fantastically warm here though.
I'll blog the generator story separately. Short version is that we've
had it fixed, it starts now at least but is still not running 100% and we are
having difficulty getting the mechanic back..
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