Canary Islands
More photographs of the boys and the toys!
My friend Pertti and me arrived one week earlier to San Miguel to service the Atlantic Navigator. Clean the mast and her underwater body. Give her a new coat of paint and we even raised the waterline in the aft a few cm.
A sad sight met us in the basin full of water. We wandered what happened to a 15 m motor yacht. When they managed to lift the hull pieces out of the water we could see what it was all about.
Some guy had built a cabin of scrap wood and plywood. Screwed it together and covered the whole "thing" with a 2 mm thick fiber glass layer. No keel stocks - No bulkheads - no stringers, just something like a cottage screwed together. Two big Volvo engines and a lot fine electronic stuff.
He throttled away from the harbor and the piece of shit went in to parts when hitting the waves.
I feel sorry of the sad owner of the water front cottage.
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| This was in our way to get hoisted up on land. |
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| Brand new Volvo engines soaked with salt water. |
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| Up she raises. |
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| Some guy thought he could build a boat, this happened on her maiden voyage from Tenerife to Gran Canaria |
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| Today our turn to get up. |
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| Atlantic Navigator was full of vegetation and was newly painted with new zink anodes |
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| Paintig the antifouling and new epoxy treatment to the port side of the keel. |
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| A concert was arranged on the golf course |
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| washing the mast and the shrouds |
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| San Miguel harbor |
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| Ready for the adventure Round the Canary islands |
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| Las Palmas dock yard |
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| Some older racing yachts |
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| Newer version of racing machines |
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| Laundry day |
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| Atlantic Navigator in Las Palmas |
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| Leaving for Puerto Rico |
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| Las Palmas |
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| Lazy days in Puerto Rico |
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| "Torre" in our harbor in San Miguel. The ultimate place to enjoy evening drinks or get yourselves a good cup of morning coffee. |
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| Crew having breakfast |
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| Crew having breakfast |
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| Back from the 2016 tour |
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| Los Cristianos |
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| Los Cristianos |
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| Teide from the air craft |
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| Las Galletas tivoli |
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| New lightning on boats |
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| Las Palmas beach |
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| Crew waiting for breakfast |
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| Fish market in Las Galletas |
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| Las galletas beach |
