I have found a way of sending short texts directly to the blog from my satellite device. Since I will be making longer passages from here on I will probably make a few log entries once in a while if you are interested. Of course you can also always just follow the dot with Amy’s position.
The satellite texts can for some reason only be viewed here in the English version of the blog.
La Gomera
Last Friday I was finally notified that my battery is beyond repair. I won’t go into the “why” and “what went wrong” etc. I did that for myself long enough and apart from destroying my mood it also didn’t help at all. I then tried ordering a new one (the ones they were selling in Tenerife were to large for my battery case and very expensive). I tried ordering and every time it would take one or two days until I got a message that told me the seller wasn’t delivering to the Canary Islands. This went on with different Sellers for days. I had postponed my reservation in La Gomera to next Tuesday. So I cast off Monday evening to sail the 70 miles overnight and not arrive in the dark. I still had my starter battery. That would have to suffice.
Tenerife
Porto Santo was probably the hardest place to which to say goodbye so far. After I had got everything pretty much ready the evening before I paddled to the harbour café one last time, sat in the evening sun and had a few beers. Besides being a little sad to go, I was also eager to get to the Canary Islands. This should be a fairly easy passage with perfect winds from the port quarter all the way.
