After our two day crossing we stop off at this tiny island for a day or so before heading to Lanzarote. We arrive third out of the three of three boats ( including Starblazer and Ayesha )and Sym goes on and on and on forever about how he did not trim the sails that’s how we lost!!
We arrive in the calm secluded anchorage, dive in the water and Me, Sym and Menna swim to Ayesha and have a liquid breakfast. After celebrating our crossing we go back to Quartermoon eat some Tapas and go and sun bathe on the beach. Poor Menna all she’s been wanting is a bit of Sun so she does not have to return to England white and we arrive and it’s overcast and drizzly. We came to the conclusion that Menna was jinked with bad weather because as soon as her plane arrived in Madeira it starting to rain and did not stop. This was the first rain we had since leaving England.
Anyways we decided to take the tender ashore and go and have a nice meal. Well in Menna’s opinion this was the worst night of the whole trip (even including the two days crossing she had just done). We had a shower and dressed up in our glad rags, and Sym takes us on the two minute tender ride. Ha Ha,It ends up taking 45 minutes, into the current and wind; the waves are crashing over our boat. Well Menna may as well of jumped in she was that wet and cold. We spend the next half an hour in the toilets drying off, thank god for the hand dryer. It ended up being a wicked night, had some really good food washed down with some lovely Rioja and the tender ride home was fine.
The following morning Menna decides we should leave for Playa Blanca as she is desperate for sun and the beach as she only had three days of her holiday left. We sail the 35 miles and drop our anchor in Playa Blanca.
We all spend the next few days chilling on the beach, and the weather is perfect. The beach is beautiful as well but by god it’s definitely the touristiest place we have been to in a while. We ended up craving for a fry up and there was so much choice. We sit in this place for breakfast next to a man with a pint in his hand covered in lovely tattoos; it was honestly like a scene out of the series “Benidorm”.
We went out for a wicked Chinese where we were given free shots at the end with porn in the bottom of the glasses. Classy I know, we were so surprised cos it was a family restaurant. I’m gutted I did not think of nicking them like our friends Aliisa.
We had a awesome time with Menna and we were gutted she was going, she adapted to the boating life really easily even though the sailing trip was not very nice at all she was brilliant.!! Menna left on the 9th and the day after we both decided to quit smoking. Firstly cos we’ve been wanting to for ages and also because we figured out that to do the Atlantic crossing we would have to go into a shop and buy over 3000 fags. How embarrassing!! So we are not officially non smokers!
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