Tomorrow, Saturday 3 April, we are leaving Morocco after six months, with some sadness because we really love this country. We are planning to sail from Dakhla, Morocco, towards Dakar in Senegal, with a stop in St Louis if the weather lets us. This should take 4 or 5 days, our longest passage yet, and supposedly a nice following wind is forecast.
We have had a great time here in Dakhla where we fulfilled our dream of a night in the desert. It was brilliant, unforgettable, but we will write about that later when we can upload our photographs. Here the internet is almost impossibly slow so we can’t yet show you all the beautiful dunes and camels…
We stayed here a bit longer than we planned because we had to change a head gasket on Wanda’s engine. No problem for Martin and we had everything we needed but he decided to have the aluminium head professionally planed to do a better job. And then it all turned pear shaped. We went to pick up the head and it was so badly damaged we had finally to send it away to Laayoune to be replaned. It came back usable but the guy there had lost a bit of it which we then had to have made! This cost us over a week and a bit of stress but, it has to be said, not much money. And we’ve sure been stuck in worse places!
Well, it’s all perfect now and we are ready to go…
5 comments
Ellyn says:
2 April 2010 at 21:13 (UTC 0 )
Have a great sail to Senegal. We will be thinking of you all. All is good here in Holland. The tulips are starting to bloom….
Stella says:
2 April 2010 at 21:42 (UTC 0 )
Wowee 5 day sail! Hope the african coastal waters are kind to Wanda and its residents.
isabelle says:
3 April 2010 at 07:44 (UTC 0 )
Nous aussi nous avons quitté la Tunisie avec peine car les gens étaient super et le temps magnifique, nous avons retrouvé notre belle France avec la pluie et le froid mais content de revoir aussi nos filles car nous étions parti en amoureux que tout les deux !! J’espère que la suite de votre voyage se passera bien et on vous envoie de gros bisous…
A la prochaine !
Take care of you !
raffi says:
3 April 2010 at 11:46 (UTC 0 )
chers amis,
je je peux que vous souhaiter bon vent et à très bientôt pour lire votre carnet de voyage.
bises à vous 4.
seb raffi dodo et titude-dog
Peter says:
9 April 2010 at 08:45 (UTC 0 )
Hallo Ihr grossen Seefahrer
Wir wünschen Euch eine gute Überfahrt/Küstenfahrt nach Senegal.
Wir denken an Euch und beneiden Euch für die grosse Freiheit und Ruhe die Euer Projekt/Lebensweise vermittelt.
LG
Peter & Familie