10/26/2010, This Year
Coba Libre at sea !
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10/17/2010
Once a week, select a major household appliance, take it apart and put it
back together. Count the parts left over.
Have a fluorescent lamp installed under your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Raise the doorsteps and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill everytime you pass through.
Decommission your central heating boiler and heat the house with a hot airdryer. When you turn in for the night, remove all your clothes and put them in aplastic bin full of water. When you get up in the morning, retrieve your wet clothes and get dressed!!
Do not forget Battery management. No matter how many amp/hours or how big your inverter is you still need to prioritise use. There are two ways of looking at this.
HIS:Fridge = Cold Beer
Nav systems = Need to make sure we get to next re-vitaling location.
Laptop = Check weather on internet (note might have to set off any way despite weather as beer stocks were low, see Nav systems above)
Hair drier = That is what the wind does.
HERS: Hair drier = I hate having frizzy bad hair days
Laptop = I want to Skype my friends
Nav systems= What does this red button do?
Fridge = "Why do we need a fridge? you promised me that we would be living the dream and eating out in the best marina restaurants around the world
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10/03/2010, Lanzarote
This is an email that was sent to us from our sailing friends on Yacht Andromeda, It is soo funny, Im going to put one on a week until it runs out ..
Try this out at home..
Sleep on a shelf in a broom cupboard. Replace the cupboard door with a curtain. Then: Two hours after you go to sleep, have your better half/skipper/partner whip open the curtain and shine a torch in your eyes and shout , " You're on",OR set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night: when it does, jump off the shelf and get dressed as fast as you can, run into the garden and shower under the garden hose, OR wake up at 2 am and have a peanut butter sandwich on stale bread.
Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bath and move the shower head down to chest level. When you take a shower, shut off the water when you've got the shower gel into a good lather. Dispense with your dustbin. Place all non edible household waste in smallplastic bags, and store them in the other half of the bath.Throw anyedible waste out of the window. Bring indoors some form of petrol engine(a lawn mower will be fine), start it and leave it running while trying to hold a conversation.
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10/03/2010, Lanzarote
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10/03/2010, Volcanic Tubes
This picture was taken in the Volcanic Tubes, everyone was tempted to get in for a swim but it's only for the use of the Spanish King, so we were told, he hasn't even been in it ? What the ?
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The landscape of Lanzarote is so different to anywhere I have ever been, large black lava plains and volcanic cones and craters.. We saw a lot of vines growing on the island and they do produce wine but haven't tasted it yet.. I'm sure we will..
There is also a restaurant that everyone has been talking about on Islote De Hilario, they drop meat and roast it over of the small vent holes of the volcano, I don't think we are going to get there but it's a recommendation to anyone still to visit the island..
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10/03/2010
This little fella was soo cute, i just love Lizards, This photograph was taken in the Lava Tubes, they also had Albino Crabs which you couldn't photograph very well, they were the size of a 5 cent coin .......
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10/02/2010, Lanzarote
Susan and Andrew from Andromeda invited us for a day of sightseeing as they hired a car.. We had a lovely day out went to the Cactus Gardens and Lava Tubes followed by a lovely lunch..
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09/30/2010, Lanzarote
We had a boozy evening on board the goodship Coba Libre for James Birthday, We invited Susan and Andrew from Yacht Andromeda and the Girls from Yacht Triple D, Trycha, Alice and Jilli who we met in Madeira and are sailing a similar route towards Gran Canaries before joining the madness of the ARC begins on the 21st of November..
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09/30/2010, Lanzarote
We had an OK 2 day passage from Madeira to Lanzarote, the second night was a bit rough, the wind picked up which meant the sea was picking up as well. The boat wasn't knocked down, but a rouge wave hit us from the side and it shocked me a little because the boom was in the water, I screamed and woke James up (sorry J) but it hasn't happened before .. James ended up staying up for most of the night and he let me sleep, god he's a good man, I felt a little guilty, because normally we do 3 hour watches.. We ended up changing course in the early hours of the morning as we were originally heading for the Island of Graciosa but decided to get a little more comfortable and have the waves coming from behind and sail an extra 30 miles to Rubicon Marina South of Lanzarote..
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