South to the Canaries
The dot-com officer having been busy with his A-level studies, the Mollymawk website has spent the past few months lying unattended on its moorings. Not so the vessel herself – or at any rate, not quite so much so. This very belated report describes our passage south from the Mediterranean port of Melilla down to the Canary Islands. People often write to us asking, “What special skills do you need in order to go cruising?” Well, herewith, in Part I…