Lanzarote Part Two

Anchored up in Playa Blanca outside Marina Rubicon – Me and Sym quite smoking!!!!

After Menna leaving we decided to stay put for a few days to wait for my family to arrive. In the mean time Sym went to see the dive centre and booked in to do his first aid response course aswell as his rescue diver ( in order to complete his dive master to find work in the Caribbean )

During this week we met solo sailor Simon “Boo” from Yacht Doris from Brighton who introduced us to Lauri (Australia )and Annina (Finland) from Aliisa, and Marcus and Jess from Veracity from somewhere in England (sorry cant remember), and Simon’s mate Cool Crewey who came to stay aboard Doris. As you can imagine the next few days involved a lot of drinking and partying aboard everyones boats which ended up being great fun. We took in turns cooking food on boats, Tapas on Quartemoon and pancakes and fried rum bananas on Veracity and the famous Tuc biscuits and laughing cow on Doris ( Simon tried his best bless him but his cupboards only consisted of chocolate , biscuits and crackers ) so we did not get much choice. After chatting to everyone we decide to go to Cape Verdes and cut the Atlantic crossing into two parts instead of leaving staright from La Gomera.

Sym completed his course over the next four days and I made my self busy, cooking, shopping, sunbathing and snorkelling etc. We then decided to go into Marina Rubicon(which Sym really did not want to have to do cos the staff were so rude) to fill our tanks up with water.

While I was lifting up the anchor Sym decides to come up front to give me some advice of a different “ better” method of bringing up the anchor. Even though I was doing just fine!! One second later, oops blood everywhere, he had only go and crushed his finger under the chain and his finger basically exploded – it was gross. He was in so much pain, I surprisingly very cooley drove Quartermoon onto the fuel pontoon . Then Sym caught a taxi to hospital while I stayed aboard Quartermoon. Half an hour later he was back, fully stiched up and bandaged. The doc said he had to go back everyday for a week to have it dressed!!!! Nightmare!!!!