La Bamba – Voyages of sailing boat La Bamba

Tree Planting and other Jobs

Las Palmas

Friday 13 November

This morning I got on an enormous bus with some other ARCers for a trip up to the interior to plant trees.

On Thursday morning we had our rig inspection. We did have it done in Lymington earlier this year but we have sailed over 2000 miles since then so we thought it would be a good idea to do another one before we do another 3000 miles (very soon!)

It’s Official!

Las Palmas

Tuesday and Wednesday 10 & 11 November

We have now officially checked in – La Bamba is signed up for the start with all 4 crew, although we don’t have George quite yet…

La Bamba gets a Clean Bottom

Las Palmas marina

Sunday / Monday 8-9 November

We are happily nestled in our dock on the end of K pontoon next to some enormous catamarans and other monohulls. La Bamba is one of the smaller boats here.

Perfect Passage to Las Palmas

Morro Jable to Las Palmas, 60nm

Saturday 9 November

We left the dock at 8, proving we can get organised when we need to, and waved goodbye to rocky Fuerteventura.

Rest Day (for some)

Morro Jable, Fuerteventura

Friday 6 November

There’s no wind today so we are staying put – a nice wind is forecast for Saturday so we’ll use that to cross over to Gran Canaria.

No Wind at First

Gran Tarajal to Morro Jable, 26nm

Thursday 5 November

As predicted there is absolutely no wind, but we decided to press on anyway to get as far South as possible on Fuerteventura before we cross over to Gran Canaria.

Tacking South off Fuerteventura

Puerto del Rosario to Gran Tarajal, 36nm

Wednesday 4 November

We didn’t set off too early as we expected the wind to fill in later in the morning/ early afternoon, and we were rewarded with initially 7 then 10-12 knot winds from pretty much due South.