Stormälö - South America - Cape Horn: Getting Atlantic Navigator ready for our sailing trip

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A foto cavalcade of the boat and the crew of this summer.

We are waiting with excitement for Pertti´s films to be edited and he has certainly some good pics to add to the blog also.
Here are marvelous shots by Kimmo of the dolphins and the boat on sail.
A foto cavalcade of the boat and the crew of this summer.

Atlantic Ocean, foto Kimmo

Bow and the dolphin, foto Kimmo

Two dolphins, foto Kimmo

Best shot of our sailing trip, foto Kimmo

Laundry guys

Crew on the road

Skipper and Kimmo

Skipper on his own laundry job

Heading to some harbor,foto Kimmo

Kimmo

The King Fisher Pertti

Pertti

Atlantic Navigator

All in one piece after the tour

Mast checking

Fisher from Maspalomas

Maspalomas dunes in Gran Canaria

We almost died of heat in Maspalomas dunes. Great relief after we got to the waterfront!

Maspalomas lighthouse

We almost drop the eyes on it, tourists on a caravan and we are
with our sandals bodies dehydrating effectively in the direct sun.

He is falling into a pleasant dream!

Me and my girl riding high!

Beach bar on the left corner

This was left of the famaous nude beach and some old blokes
in bare skins trying to find something to look at. 

This hasn´t been found by sailing. This was an old waterway in
Gran Canary where Kolumbus stopped on his way to the New World.

We had some wind on the way
back to Tenerife

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