Marina San Miguel does have Wifi but it extends only 100m from the marina office, which covers about 10% of the boats in the marina (the super yachts only), the rest of us have to walk round and sit on a bench or in the café. Therefore, whilst we waited for the car to arrive we downloaded our mails. Car arrived and signed for we drove round the marina to wait at the boat for the compressor and diving cylinders, the final part of our boat kit out and eagerly anticipated by Kevin and especially Alex who is a very keen diver.
Lisa arrived at the boat right on time, we were keen to meet Lisa and Claus (The Compressor People, Tenerife) who have been extremely helpful and friendly by email and phone when arranging the sale. Lisa had obviously been reading our blog because she arrived with English bacon for Kevin! They also had some friends over from Austria, so we provided the now well rehearsed guided tour of the boat. Kevin and Claus set straight to work in going over the compressor, they had kindly offered to deliver the compressor to the boat and to provide a demonstration and walkthrough of the servicing. The Bauer Junior II looked very impressive and shiny, but slightly concerning was now with a Subaru motor not Honda, which was slightly wider than the previous model, which might mean that it would not fit in the engine bay. Kevin and Claus filled one of the two 10 litre cylinders we had bought before they needed to move on to the next job. We were very impressed by Claude and Lisa and would certainly recommend their excellent service.
Kevin filled the second cylinder and we made some salad for lunch whilst it cooled. After a couple of measurements we decided to attempt lifting it onto the platform that Kevin had made for the engine bay and happily found that it fitted perfectly into place! We are now nicely balanced with the generator in the other engine bay.
Next job was provisioning and reccy to the airport, as we could see the runway from the boat not to mention the very frequent low flying aircraft, it couldn’t be far away. We successfully navigated the Tenerife road network, on and off the motorway to the airport and found the parking area. We headed back again towards San Miguel and first to the Mercadonna (Supermarket Lisa found the bacon) where we were amazed by the range and the cheaper prices. We bought enough for a couple of days but decided to bring Alex and Sean with us for the final stock up as it is always quite an experience going to a foreign supermarket.
We went back to the boat, unpacked and had a shower and it was already time to get the airport to collect Alex and Sean. Kevin had been growing a special Spanish style beard to surprise Alex, so we have been keeping his photos off the blog. We got a coffee and waited for their slightly delayed plane. They arrived through the gates after the inevitable baggage delay and Alex seemed to have grown even taller than since we last saw her, they were both excited to have finally got here and were looking in need of a bit of sunshine. We went back to the boat and showed them both around, a first time aboard for Sean. They settled into their cabins then we headed out for a celebratory meal. We ended back at the same place as the night before with the same food, though this time three times roast chicken and a vegetable pizza! We were all full of plans for the week and spent a lovely evening catching up on news and planning for our three weeks together.
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