Gibraltar to Tangier

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Note to reader: The below updates were originally posted to a group chat that I was using to keep my family and friends updated on the progress of my sea adventure.

Update 21-October

Okay! So plans have changed: it is now 13:30 on Saturday and we will be leaving Gibraltar in the next hour or so. The goal is to cross the strait of Gibraltar and make it to Tangier, Morocco before night fall.

Update 22-October

After anchoring at a beach just next to the main marina in Tangier, the Moroccan coast guard rolled up on us, boarded our boat, and told us that we were not allowed to anchor here, and in fact you are not allowed to stop anywhere outside of marinas at night. Since we are now in need of shelter from the coming Sunday storms, they called the marina and got us a berth there. (After a bunch of passport and boat paperwork inspections and looking around)

Images of two moroccan dishes, a tajine and a salad. — Dinner onshore: Salade Berbere and a Tajine

So now the plan is that we wait it out in the port at Tangier, waiting until the storm passes. The current weather forecast says that we should be able to leave first thing Monday morning, so that is the current plan.

So if we go according to plan, we will leave Tangier on Monday (tomorrow), and then head straight for the Canary Islands in a nonstop passage. This passage takes approximately 5 days, and the goal is to make it there by Friday or Saturday.