Kevin has had another busy day, firstly cleaning the water filter, then replacing the anodes on the stern drives which involved a dive in the marina. He has also given the hull a bit of a scrub, it had got quite a bit of growth during our prolonged stay in San Miguel, which had reduced on passage but benefited from a bit of assistance, the advantage of being a diver and sailor I think.
The sailing-diving skipper
Stern drive anode wear after only 4 months
The only aspect of timing which is not ideal is that it is the Southampton Boat Show (is it really only a year since we were there with my parents and Alex looking at a demo boat?!), which means our brokers are rather busy and Karen is struggling to be as prompt as usual on responding to our warranty queries. However, she is trying her best, as I suspect FP are also flat out with the La Rochelle Boat Show which runs at the same time. We are awaiting for Furuno to provide the replacement units for our wind indicator and multi-display unit, both of which are faulty. We also detected cracks in the t-pieces on our shrouds, which although not thought to be dangerous by Z-Spars the manufacturer are to be replaced just in case, so we are expecting a rigger too. This is definitely the right place in the Canaries to get all these jobs done and it appears our timing is right to get fitted in, we just need the replacement parts to arrive.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The tradition of painting the harbour wall with your boat logo which originated in Horta, Azores and has been spread by the ARC to Las Palmas
Some of you will also be pleased to hear we have had some rain this week (for the first time since I arrived in early June), the showers generally last about five minutes and are rather light. The first was in La Gomera, so we are blaming Jill and Phil, it is actually good news for us as it is washing the dust down from all the rigging and mast mounted instruments which are difficult to clean.
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