Visit to Darsena Pesquera

The tiller head fitting has been successfully fitted as per previous post but there was some play in the tiller owing to the new fitting being a bit narrower than the old one. I think that our cast aluminium tiller base fitting it non standard. The solution is, thankfully, quite simple and involves inserting a couple of washers inside. We therefore took ourselves to Santa Cruz and the chandlers there.

The bus ride was quite pleasant even though it was only along the main TF1 autopista from Los Cristianos. I quite enjoyed not driving. There is quite a good chandler with branches in Santa Cruz itself and also at the boatyard in the Darsena Pesquera to the north of the city. The city center branch didn't have 12mm washers so we had our sandwiches and set out to walk to the boatyard. It is actually a very long walk there and we were distinctly tired. In actuality, the head of the Darsena is right out past all the Santa Cruz port complex at a town called San Andres. Needless to say, we found and caught a bus back! At least we managed to get the washers. Nearly €40 euros on the bus to spend 60c on washers though!

We did like seeing Santa Cruz again though and one day would really like to stay in the marina in the city center. I took a couple of pictures.

This rather gray view south from the northern end of the main harbour complex:

And one of the most distinctive buildings in Santa Cruz. It looks a bit like some Dr Who monster.