PLAN
Timo sent Noah a direct message via Instagram and after a short conversation we were booked to leave the UK and fly into Lanzarote the following evening. Flights back from Lanzarote were all sold out, but there was an option to cross by ferry and to fly back from Fuerteventura so the plan was hatched with that slight added complication. Once again through a few more clicks of buttons, a car and cheap accommodation in Costa Teguise were booked and everything was in place for three days in Lanzarote and one in Fuerteventura, covering four days of predicted wind, waves and warm sunshine!
Scanning through Facebook on the way to the airport I saw a post from Philip Köster, saying that he was at home in Vargas in Gran Canaria and was looking forward to the upcoming forecast in the Canary Islands. I decided to send him a quick message saying we were headed to Lanzarote just in case he felt like a change of conditions and within minutes he had replied that he might catch a ferry over for the peak of the swell! Now the pressure was on, we were committed to this trip and were also dragging the world champion on an eight hour ferry ride to join us, let’s hope our resident local Noah Vocker knew what he was talking about! Once again victims of social media, it did not take long before the word spread that we were heading to Lanzarote and the likes of Lena Erdil, Tristan Algret and Corky Kirkham were all keen to join us.