Sunday 20 December 2015

Gibraltar

15 December

With a favourable weather forecast, we left Almeiramar and off to Gibraltar..
Farewell Almeirmar
 The Med at it's calmest, not even a puff of air at points during the day...
 We were treated to yet another spectacular show by the Sun - having done it's bit for the day it put on a parting show..
That night at about 2300, I heard a splash - but assuming I was hearing things, I ignored it... A short while later I heard it again, so I investigated.... We had a pod of Seadogs tucked in just behind the bow on the starboard side... The were just swimming along with the boat - occasionally one would drop off and you could see them swimming under the boat from port to starboard and tucking themselves in again.  I woke up Evelyne and Phillip see the show...  The rest of the night went on without a hitch, we had 10-15kts of wind slightly off the transom so we couldn't throw out a lot of sail without it collapsing and tugging at the boat..  The following morning we were treated to a sunrise...


 The wind died down to about 10kts directly behind the boat, we could either alter course, adding another 5NM to our distance and sail at about 4kts (or less and potentially run into more current against us adding about 2-3 hours to our journey) or motor on directly - I chose to motor, as I wanted to arrive in Gibraltar at a decent hour...

We arrived at Gibraltar at about 15h30 and took quite a few pictures of the Rock - we were greeted by Vanessa, who had put two BIG South African flags on their balcony and she was outside jumping up and down..


We motored past a jumping Vanessa and on to Ocean Village marina..  Before we docked, I filled up with with diesel and it was free - 70l of diesel - 20 quid!!!! *CHEAPEST* fuel *EVER*!!!

 Phillip and Vanessa came to welcome us on the boat and took us out for dinner and a brief tour of the city...  The following day we were again treated by Phillip and Vannessa to some awesome company, awesome food and a view to match....
Having arrived at the start of the real trip, we will spend the next few days waiting for the remaining equipment that I ordered, very minor maintenance provisioning the boat and some RNR.. Philipp has also left us and now we are searching for two crew members.... 

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