Tenerife (Santa Cruise)

Preparations for ´the Atlantic Crossing´

We arrived in Santa Cruise after a 30 hour sail from Arecife and went into the Marina de Atlantico to await the arrival of Pete and Nick. The boat was all spit and polished and looking lovely for Pete to admire when they arrived on Sunday evening and Keith presented us with our ´Team Rapau´T Shirts. It was great to see them and we talked into the night while we celebrated their arrival.

Us in our team T shirts and Pete celebrating his arrival

The next few days were spent doing jobs that needed doing before we leave on Thursday (even had Pete up the mast cursing that it is the last time we will get him up there, don´t think he enjoyed the experience) but with one snag (isn´t there always). Pete and Nick had arranged for a parcel to be delivered by DHL which contained some essential bits but somewhere along the line it was send back to UK! So we are still here on Thursday awaiting its arrival in the morning (as we know it is on the island now). We then need a very quick get away as we are on a very tight schedule to get to Barbados by 12 December so Nick does not miss his flight home. One evening we had a BBQ only to find that it rained, and apparently it almost never rains in Tenerife!

Pete up the mast

Lots of jobs going on!

Nick taking a short break

Keith cooking on the stern of Rapau in the rain

We found light relief during our hectic few days in a local bar run by a mad Spanish man who keeps the whole bar amused as he runs around filling and banging peoples glasses and serving food. They also have this amazing draw 3 times a week which contains what must be at least 100 euros worth of food and drink for 1.50 euros a go. He kept calling the lads Cap i tan and when we bought our numbers he put them down as Cap i tan English Keith, Cap i tan English Pete, Cap i tan English Nick and me as `woman cap i tan English`. So we went back there with great excitment for thre draw on Wednesday but we did´nt win the prize sadly. Don´t know were we would have hung the huge ham during the voyage anyway! So just had to have a few (very cheap) drinks instead.



The mad bar!

Pedro (another of our new friends!) with ham as part of the prize he won the first night we went there.

Nick cut Keith and Pete´s hair with the hair clippers today, they both went for a no 3 (hairgrade that is) while I was like a pack horse back and forth with the fresh fruit and vegtables (for as long as they will last). So we will now be at sea crossing the Atlantic Ocean from here in Tenerife to Barbados in the Carribean for the next 3 weeks. The blog will continue in December when we reach the other side of the Atlantic!

Pete and Nick having their no 3´s