capnsensible
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About a month ago, I was contacted by an agent to take a motor boat (Princess 45) from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to La Linea. For onward shipping on a, well, ship. Ok. Let's go. So we sorted costs, fuel consumption, pit stops, yadda yadda. For interest that's 100 litres an hour at 20 knots so around 14 hours steaming between bunkers. Would mean two stops in Morocco. Bit kinda thoughtful about that. Not from covid directly, but I'm very familiar with Maroc beaurocracy and I had a not quite sure about it all thing.
However the shipping company are doing their normal messing about. So I start wondering if it's all worth it. Then joy. A good friend of mine has bought a Lagoon 42 lying near Barcelona. Deliver to Lanzarote. That's more like it. He is about to get his residency, my other crew and myself already got that. So with our letter of authorisation sorted plus some other paperwork, we are booked to fly to Barca on Monday. Spain to Spain, so legal. 31 euro flight!
Game on. Fly Monday. Sea trial Tuesday morning. Heavy lift victuals in the afternoon, get going on Wednesday. Owner a tad nervous so likely a couple of day sails to get into routine. Dunno if they will let us in anywhere, but hey, the boats got an anchor. The rest will figure itself out. Will be nice to be moving again, safely.
However the shipping company are doing their normal messing about. So I start wondering if it's all worth it. Then joy. A good friend of mine has bought a Lagoon 42 lying near Barcelona. Deliver to Lanzarote. That's more like it. He is about to get his residency, my other crew and myself already got that. So with our letter of authorisation sorted plus some other paperwork, we are booked to fly to Barca on Monday. Spain to Spain, so legal. 31 euro flight!
Game on. Fly Monday. Sea trial Tuesday morning. Heavy lift victuals in the afternoon, get going on Wednesday. Owner a tad nervous so likely a couple of day sails to get into routine. Dunno if they will let us in anywhere, but hey, the boats got an anchor. The rest will figure itself out. Will be nice to be moving again, safely.
