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La Gomera Update

Posted on November 3rd, 2013

photo-4I have been spending the past few days here in La Gomera recovering from Thursday night and fully assessing the condition of yacht Haskapa.

On Friday I thoroughly cleaned and tidied up the boat and putting everything back where it was before entering the Tenerife / La Gomera washing machine! I also fully assessed the damage from the previous day and past week’s  sailing.

Having also spent some time going over the boat with local boat builder, I can conclude that there’s good news and bad news (as our son would say)!!! Good news is that it seems that Haskapa managed to come out of Thursday’s washing machine relatively unscathed, and so the only repairs that need to carried out are to those things that broke before the Canaries; the bad news is that the repairs are likely to take a week or so.

So I am very likely to be here at least until next Saturday repairing, recovering and resting. Although give that the weather I have been through is not really giving me a break, that is no bad thing!!