{"id":53148,"date":"2018-01-07T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/2018\/01\/caribbean-odyssey-starts-tenerife\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T17:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T17:54:37","slug":"caribbean-odyssey-starts-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/2018\/01\/caribbean-odyssey-starts-tenerife\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Odyssey starts from Tenerife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santa Cruz de Tenerife<\/p><\/div>\n

After a wonderful start to the new year with days of cobalt blue skies, steady NE winds and pleasant temperatures, culminating with a balmy night for the Three Kings\u2019 procession, participants in the Caribbean Odyssey<\/em> woke up on Saturday to a dull cold day with rain showers and a sad-looking grey sky.<\/p>\n

Marina Santa Cruz<\/p><\/div>\n

With all preparations done and all boats in good shape, the spirits were high and all participants were keen to finally be on their way.<\/p>\n

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With proverbial Swiss punctuality the crew of Olena<\/em> were waiting impatiently to cast their lines.<\/p>\n

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The crew of Wilderness<\/em> were just as keen to go.<\/p>\n

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Last jobs on Sandro<\/em> and Tubalcain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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But the first to be on its way was Sina<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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To be followed by Olena.<\/em><\/p>\n

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With the crew of Tubalcain<\/em> busy stowing away their fenders before putting to sea.<\/p>\n

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They were followed closely by Wilderness<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Then came Sandro<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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And finally Serenity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The aerial photograph of the city of Santa Cruz, shown at the beginning of this report, was taken last year while on a flight from Tenerife to the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria. More recently, again from my window seat, I was lucky to take another aerial shot of this beautiful island, that of the 3700-metre high volcanic cone of Mount Teide.<\/p>\n

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