07/09/2016

Getting Atlantic Navigator ready for our sailing trip

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.

This was in our way to get hoisted up on land.
Brand new Volvo engines soaked with salt water.
Up she raises.


Some guy thought he could build a boat, this happened on her
 maiden voyage from Tenerife to Gran Canaria


Today our turn to get up.


Atlantic Navigator was full of vegetation and was newly painted
with new zink anodes
Paintig the antifouling and new epoxy treatment to the port
 side of the keel.


A concert was arranged on the golf course

washing the mast and the shrouds

San Miguel harbor

Ready for the adventure Round the Canary islands

Las Palmas dock yard

Some older racing yachts

Newer version of racing machines

Laundry day

Atlantic Navigator in Las Palmas

Leaving for Puerto Rico

Las Palmas 

Lazy days in Puerto Rico

"Torre" in our harbor in San Miguel. The ultimate place to enjoy
evening drinks or get yourselves a good cup of morning coffee.

Crew having breakfast

Crew having breakfast

Back from the 2016 tour 

Los Cristianos

Los Cristianos

Teide from the air craft

Las Galletas tivoli

New lightning on boats

Las Palmas beach

Crew waiting for breakfast

Fish market in Las Galletas

Las galletas beach