Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

More boat jobs continued on our now dwindling list today, Kevin was cleaning and moving the tender to lie face down on the trampoline for the next passage. We also store the outboard in the anchor locker to better distribute weight and prevent chafe on the davits or catching from following waves, which meant a clean up and reorganisation of that space.

I had bought some specialist vinyl cleaning solution to clean the salon sofa cushions, which came up really well. One thing we have not objected to paying yacht tax for is the specialist cleaning solutions, you can tell the difference instantly when you use them and it does seem to afford some protection afterwards too.

We also received approval for the quote today for the sail repair, so we went to the sail shop to book the work. In what is become the usual ritual we ended up going twice, the first to receive an indefinite answer, the second to speak to Octavio, who was still not back, but they rang his mobile to ask (I know why they did not do this the first time is a mystery). We were booked in for the work on Wednesday next week and someone would come that afternoon before 2pm to remove the sail and transport it to the shop plus deliver our rope to the boat. Obviously, 2pm came and went with no sign of anyone and by 5.30pm when we were heading to the Sailor Bar for WiFi and a beer I thought I’d better drop by and check no one would go to the boat in our absence. Third time lucky, saw Octavio, who apologised and said he’d collect the sail 9am on Monday.

I have finally re-established our iTunes library on the new computer and even found some tracks which because they were poorly labelled had been removed before. All laptops are now backed up, another overdue job ticked off. Although, we now do not have space on the new laptop for my 45 CDs of 6 Audio books (Penguin Classic collection) I had been saving for the Atlantic passage and part of the reason for embarking on this mission. So, another job has been created to sort through some of the 80Gb of data we have accumulated and find some space.