Arriving in the Canary Islands after a great sail down from Cadiz. The next instalment in our video diary as we prepare to take our modified Catana42s across the Atlantic Ocean.
Our carbon longeron and front beam are fantastic but Shayne is worried about chafing on the navigation lights we have installed inside the bow pole. He spends a quiet morning checking that out and making sure all is good. We have the clutch for the tack line installed so Shayne no longer has to play monkey man and hang out the front of Paikea to set up the spinnaker.
The weather soon gets rough and as boats start to drag their moorings in the bay, we retreat to the safety of the marina to continue with a few little jobs to make night time sailing and reefing easier.
In This Series
This is part of a longer story — an 11-part account of crossing from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, including a rudder lost 800 miles from land and the recovery that followed. Read it in order:
- The Canary Islands: Preparation for Atlantic Passage
- Discovering Chainplate Movement
- Atlantic Crossing on a Modified Catana42: Canary Islands to the Caribbean
- Mid-Atlantic Repairs and Growing Crew
- Downwind Spinnaker Trim
- Daggerboard Control, Watermaker Maintenance & Speed Secrets
- Losing a Rudder 800nm from Land
- How We Sailed 800nm With One Rudder
- We Lost a Rudder in the Middle of the Atlantic
- Navigation Systems Onboard Paikea
- Did Losing a Rudder Damage Our Hulls?