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Sailing in the Canary Islands with CanarySail.com
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
You even get live music with canary sail
Heading in to San Sebastion
Sunrise over Mount Teidi
Canary sail is an RYA sailing school based on the island of La Gomera. Jim Grey, the proprieter of canary sail and a great friend, skippered the boat for myself and three mates. This has to be one of the best places in the world for sailing/sail training. If you’d like to know more I recommend taking a look at the Canary Sail web site www.canarysail.com.
We flew to Tennerife South and then took a 45 minute ferry to San Sebastion, the capital of La Gomera. The boat was a few minutes walk from the ferry – could not be simpler. San Sebastion is a charming, very unspoilt place with plenty of good, very reasonably priced restaurants and bars.
We were sailing for six days and visited the islands of Tenerife and El Hierro as well as two other ports on La Gomera. Sailing conditions could not have been better ie warm and windy, we had some pretty exciting times in the ‘acceleration zones’. On the final day sailing, we set out well before dawn to look at the stars, fantastic, very little light pollution and to see a most spectacular sun rise over Mount Teidi on Tenerife. During the six days sailing we saw dolphins and flying fish.
On the last day we rented a car and explored the island. The interior has a national park which has been designated a UNESCO world heritage site. It’s a fascinating place, very green, wooded and humid and about 10 degrees cooler than the coast.
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