We have arrived in Gibraltar!

Wahay…Laura finally gets a chance to blog!!! Here it goes!

 

We arrived to a very sunny Spain (Roquetas) to a beautiful boat, unpacked, craned the boat out of the water so we (that’s the royal we!! I did the shopping!) can work on changing the propeller, I made the sandwiches for lunch! Which personally I think was the biggest contribution to the days activities!  Then after getting the boat back in the water, I was delegated the task of cleaning bird poo off all the boat covers, and this is where it all went wrong!!!  My plans of throwing myself into the yachtie life, hoisting the sails, grinding the winches and covering my night watch to Gibraltar didn’t quite happen!  Eeek…whilst bent over cleaning poo of sail covers my back decided its had enough and gave way! So the past 4 days has seen me in laid up in the cabin with a bad back!   Not quite the start to the trip I had planned!

 

So whilst Stu and Alan have prepared the boat for sea, sailed the boat from Roquetas to Gibraltar (overnight), cooked three evening meals, and made copious amounts of tea/coffee…Lady muck here has had her feet up watching them and being waited on hand and foot! Something tells me I’m not going to live this down! The good news is after 4 days of being laid up I am now on deck, moving normally and fighting off the mickey taking.

 

Apparently according to my two crewman, our first sail was accompanied with lots of showers and headwinds and then no wind and plenty of motoring! (didn’t miss much then did I J ) however, they were accompanied by a pod of dolphins following the boat at night distinguished by the phosphorescent glow, I hope we see lots more of this!!!

 

We arrived in Gibraltar this afternoon, sun is shining and all is looking good! We hope that Margaret will join us by the weekend, and we can all head to Lanzarotte together.  Please come soon…the male conversation consists of too much boaty language I struggle to understand. 

 

Missing you all lots but now I’m up and about we are all looking forward to a fully functioning crew, and a nice sail to Lanzarotte.  We think weather permitting and Margaret’s arrival we will leave either Friday or Sunday. 

 

xx