28 Oct - 1 Nov mostly at Marina Rubicon Lanzarote

Marina Rubicon is also a 'yachtsman's marina', perhaps more so than Puerto Calero, with plenty of liveaboards, and world travellers. The 'One Bar' is the must place for beer quaffing and the spinning of sailors yarns. Its run by a Columbian woman with a delightful smile and a zest for partying. The bar is frequented by all nationalities with a sort of english/dutch/german hybrid as the lingua franca.
For us the Friday 28th was a recovery day after too much beer and too many late night tales. Sadly, this was also Sean's departure day so he was whisked away by taxi at 0930, leaving me for the first time for a long time alone with the boat and my endless joblists and a hangover.
I now had a long weekend to tidy up the boat and catch up on jobs before my sister Min from Dublin joined on Monday. Was I industrious in this time?....Did I achieve much?..... Well no. A kind of indolence set in, tinged by self pity and wanton highly focus inefficiency. I did some walks, drank some beer, assembled and rode my bike. I tinkered around the frayed edges of my endless job lists. A bit like life really.
I also spent some time and  money fighting the swell in the harbour. The harbour is prone to surge when the ocean swell is high. We are starboard side to and I have an anchor chum on the stbd bow line, big metal coilsprings on the main fore and aft spring-lines, and rubber snubbers on the aft and port bow lines and a large snubber on a midships port line pulling us off the berth. We still creak and groan away all night like a down channel galleon.
Close neighbours are Colin, a live-aboard environmental journalist, on an Ovni 40, and Matthew on his very smart and sleek new 45 foot Cruising X-boat.
Over the weekend I eventually manage to deploy my various homemade covers and bimini over the cockpit and although its only the prototype held together by bungee and masking tape the whole ensemble looks rather smart.
On Mon 31st Colin and I help Matthew take Pau Amma out of the water by travelhoist so he can do some minor epoxy touching up work and scrubbing.
Min arrived by air as planned on Monday PM. She is rather tired out by the pressures of work so I decide to stay here an extra day before heading south to Fuerteventura. Plan then is to leave here early Wednesday morning 2 Nov to anchor off isla lobos at the top of  Fuerteventura before then progressing down the E coast of thsat island.Possible make the long passage from Fuerte to Gran Canaria on Friday or Saturday.
Nothing else exciting to report except that Min's finger was bitten by a parrot on Playa Blanca waterfront, and that the mullet here are even bigger and more numerous than elsewhere. Also a chinaman in an Indian shop sold me a straw hat. Much more in keeping with my air of impoverished gentility than the standard  British yachtsman's 'wally hat'.
I would really love to post photos but its really a pain in the proverbial. Most wifi signals so far have only been fast enough to allow the passage slow and halting text. I've now got a huge backlog of photos to put on. But how when & where?
Speak soon old things.