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The grandchildren in Las Palmas
Four days after the ARC start, it is time for our grandchildren and their mother Sofia to visit us in Las Palmas. We have promised to meet them at the airport and take the bus to meet them there. Their flight is on time and we…
ARC 2022 starts
Now it is time for almost 200 expectant Atlantic sailors to begin the long voyage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. We ourselves have been in the same situation in 2019 and know how many things there are to arrange when it is the first time…
To Las Palmas
From Morro Jable it is approximately 60 nautical miles to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. It is a day trip with around 10 hours of sailing in the wind predicted by the weather forecast. In order to arrive before dark, we leave Morro Jable at dawn.…
Nostalgia trip to Morro Jable
From Gran Tarajal it is a short sail, just over 20 nautical miles down to Morro Jable on southern Fuerteventura. We have been there once before, at the beginning of 1990. At that time, they had just started building large hotels by the beautiful beach. We’ll…
Visiting Gran Tarajal
In order to make a few stops along the way, we leave Rubicon about 1 week before we were supposed to arrive in Las Palmas. We take the route east of Fuerteventura and the first port is Gran Tarajal, barely 50 nautical miles from Rubicon. We…
Vineyards in Lanzarote
The car excursion continues and we visit the wine district around La Geria to see how grapes are grown in a volcanic area. Since we didn’t visit La Graciosa when we sailed here, we want at least to view the island from a vantage point at…
Lanzarote’s large lava fields
In this story, you can follow us on a day trip with a rental car to the north of the island. Among other things, we want to experience the large pitch-black lava field in the middle of the island that you can see on Google Maps.…
Rubicon on Lanzarote
The first weeks of our stay on Lanzarote, we familiarize ourselves with the surroundings around the Rubicon Marina all the way to Faro Punta Pechiguera in the west. We also make several short sailing excursions to the beaches east of Rubicon. Playa Blanca For charter tourists,…
To Lanzarote
This leg is approximately 290 nautical miles (535 km) and will take approximately 2 days to sail in the moderate following wind from north to northwest. Day 1 Now it is time to sail on. Yesterday we checked out of Porto Santo and make Sally ready…
Porto Santo a second time
Now it’s almost October and it’s time to sail to Las Palmas. We will try to get there just before ARC 2022 starts on November 20, so we have plenty of time. The first stop on the way there will be Porto Santo, a sailing that…
Norwegian pier paintings in Porto Santo
Here are the pier paintings that have been done by the crew of sailing boats from Norway.
Swedish pier paintings in Porto Santo
Here are the pier paintings that have been done by the crew of sailing boats from Sweden.
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Sailing Sally 