Thursday 1st Feb. España!
Friday 26th January. Staying here in Faro.
Nomad. Happy at anchor. Change of mind. I enjoyed the row ashore yesterday evening, good exercise. Rowing because the outboard needs attention, it has petrol coming out where it shouldn't. I'll stay in Faro awhile. The next good forecast for crossing the bay of Cadiz is Wed/Thur and the Gibraltar straits Sat/Sun. That's the plan. The weather is incredible, it's 21c here, 28c in Valencia. The big white birds that I saw on the shore coming in weren't storks, I don't know what they were, these are storks, there's loads of them here in the town centre. I bought oranges in the supermarket yesterday. What a fool! More storks. Sometimes they make a click clucking sound like the zombies in World War Z.
That is going to be one delicious sleep....
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ReplyDeleteWas amazed when I heard you had sailed some (?most) of that last leg. Is that why the route goes a little zigzaggy? Were you 'tacking' (conjures up alarming memories of crossing over that time back from Rotterdam!🤢🤮🤮to the nth degree!
ReplyDeleteYes, and it was nearly as arduous as that Rotterdam crossing, my automatic tiller pilot went on the blink, that's £500 and it's only 18 months old. My bow spent so much time buried in waves that my nav lights packed up. I can't blame the forecast, it was spot on, it just didn't account for my wishful thinking that it might not be so bad.
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