Girls visit to Las Palmas

To break up the time that we had in Ireland, we booked some flights to Las Palmas to visit every one and to spend some time on the boat. It was very cold in Ireland so we were ready to see some sun. We flew from Dublin airport on the 5th of November. We only planned to be with them for a week and they were due to leave Las Palmas to start the Arc race on the 22nd of November. There were Arc seminars, parties and lots of events happening that week in preparation for the atlantic crossing.

Having not seen the boys for 6 weeks we were very excited!!

The team were united!!

In Las Palmas there was a wall with every boats logo painted on, so we did ours with all of our hand prints on. Of course ours was a lot bigger than everyone else. 

The Arc + boats left on the 8th of November to head over to Cape Verdes islands before doing the Atlantic crossing to join us in St Lucia.

Here are some of the boats on the starting line, it was very exciting. Lots of cheering and whistling!

Classic group shot, just in case anyone didn't know what we were doing or what boat we were from....