Tenerife
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Mon 7 Nov 2005 20:51
Tenerife 7th November
2005
Well, we're all at it
again. After what seemed like a lightening fast trip home, we are
back onboard the Sarah Grace again. We have a full set of luggage
thanks to Grandma, Margaret, who chased us at some unholy hour of the day down
to Luton airport, with half of our bags, which we had rather sleepily left
on the bedroom floor in Oakley.
Back in Lanzarote we leapt
onboard, blinking in the strong sunlight, and charged 130 miles from there
to Tenerife, in rather rough and windy conditions.
Just as we were casting off
our ropes, our neighbour, a German man, looked bemused, and said'What!!
Are you really leaving now? What about the waves?'
Well, he was right.
We had two reefs in the main, virtually no jib, and whizzed 82 miles in the
first twelve hours, through huge rough seas.
Mimi
says, 'It was really rolly, and I got sick four times. And when we arrived
we saw Koshlong and Regina and all our friends, and we talked to them on the
radio'
Otti says,'Really
cool. The last passage we did was SO rolly that I nearly got sick. I
have just come back from town with Emma, and I bought a little
broach.'
Chris says,'I can't think
of anything at the moment' (he is disconnecting a gas bottle).
Soph says,'I'm not cut out
for this sailing lark. Last night was really horrible, kitchen smashing
around all over the place, no sleep, arrived at the wrong marina at dawn but
were so bushed that we tied up and slept until lunchtime, when we moved three
miles south and met up with the gang'.
We are beginning the
serious business of stocking up the boat for the ten day sail to the Cape Verdes
and beyond.
Tomorrow Bill arrives to
fit the SSB ground plate, so that we will be able to communicate with all the
others on a radio net. We are being hauled out of the water on
Wednesday.