Therefore, Jill and Phil headed off for their hotel when we got back to the boat and we prepared the boat for a night passage. Kevin also spent the day washing our sails which were thick with dust after all this time in the Canaries. I tried all day to contact the marina office to book us in after our change of plan and despite having 5 different phone numbers in 3 different books and two email addresses I could not contact them. We decided to adopt a plan B of anchoring in the bay within the harbour we’d stayed in before if necessary and leave tonight still. Otherwise, we would be looking to get a berth for 1 month within the marina to allow us to complete our final preparations before departing from there to the Cape Verdes.
Goose-winged in unusual light southerly breeze
We were ready to depart by 4pm as we saw that the planes coming into Tenerife South had started to approach from the north as the wind had very unusually turned to the south. We didn’t need any further invitation and set off goose-winged for north Gran Canaria in about 12 knots of wind. It was a beautiful evening and it was great to be back out on a night watch as we watched the sunset over Tenerife and the large half moon rise to give us a great sail in a very slight swell until about midnight when the wind died completely and we started to motor sail. We had to turn across the TSS at 20:30 and divert again at 23:00 to pass the one ship that passed which would otherwise have been on a collision course. A quiet night was passed on our usual watch system along the north coast of Gran Canaria and round La Isleta into the port of Las Palmas.
Sunset over Tenerife
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