Ibiza to Alicante or Altea

Mira's Web Diary
Gordon and Catherine
Wed 9 Oct 2013 18:11
38:35.36N 00:03.38W Tuesday, Yup, have to say am very unimpressed by Saint Ooh-la-la, it appears to be just a mass of holiday apartments and rooms. So we're happy to skip away as the forecast is still blessedly benign. We have a delightful close reach down the coast of Ibiza and across the top of Formentera before the wind dies and we have to look to the engine. Overnight we cross the Greenwich meridian so our longitude position will now always be W. We also skirted a very busy traffic separation scheme, presumably the main traffic route to and from Gibraltar.

Still beset by problems, the main one being the clunk from the rudder, this will have to be sorted before we can contemplate setting off from Gib. Other issues are the sender unit for the fuel tank and the leaking hatch in the forward cabin. Still, one huge problem has been resolved - I needed to give a forwarding address to the makers of the self-steering gear in America but both marinas in Gib are full and wouldn't allow me to use their address unless I had a berth reserved. Several phone calls later and I've finally got a firm reservation so the packages are being Fed-Ex ed today to await our arrival - so now all we have to do is time that arrival! To that end we need to keep moving, but we both feel we could sleep for a week.

One last shock when I work out the next course - I think I'm in Alicante but the chart plotter thinks the boat's further up the coast in Altea. Whoops, first major navigation error, I've brought us to the wrong harbour. Still, it's a very nice place, just means there's further to go tomorrow.

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