Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz

Today it is a lovely day in Santa Cruz, we arrived here yesterday from Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is not a nice place, but Santa Cruz is lovely.

The Canaries are covered in Santa Cruz's. We were at Santa Cruz de La Palma, now we are at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. I was wholly non-plussed by La Palma, it was dirty and dry and dead. Tenerife is alive with exciting things, art, architecture, cafe's, people and the Queen of Spain.

We had a great sail here, i sat up on the dog watch as we beat up wind into the teeth of a strong force five. At half past four in the morning i was sat in the wind, slightly damp from spray, not jacket on reciting Shakespear and cackling maniacally. I do that alot.

We are here for new crew to arrive, Ruud and Barney/Baz/Arthur (depending on what we call him to avoid confusion with the current Barnie). Then when the weather looks good, and the ship is ready we'll head out for the big blue. Hopefully reaching Antiga sometime between the 10th and the 20th. But that really depends on the wind obviously.

I intend to write another post before we leave Europe. But if i fail our passage across the Atlantic can be followed on Blue Sky's ships blog: http://blog.mailasail.com/bluesky/blog/. Then i'll write something new in the sunshine of the Carribean, while drinking rum. And cackling maniacally. B