Today was fabulous – we’ve made it into the Mediterranean! Having waited in Cadiz for an Easterly storm to pass, we departed from Barbate early this morning hoping for fair winds rounding Tarifa and fair tides along the Gibraltar Strait. Our only other concern was that we might be attacked by Orcas. We had been …
We’re continuing to make our way southwest towards Gibraltar and stopped in two lovely, very Spanish resorts of Mazagon and Chipiona where the beach has the remains of ancient fish farm walls. In Mazagon, despite our lack of Spanish and indecipherable menus, we had fabulous fish tapas at a restaurant by a park overlooking the …
Today we departed from Portugal and sailed to Spain. We completed the mandatory Spanish Covid Health Document pre departure, declaring that we had been vaccinated and were free of Covid symptoms. We were delighted to then receive a QR code confirming that we were green. Armed with this and all our yacht paperwork we were …
After a chilly, and sometimes rainy, stay in Cascais we made our passage plan to head south to Sines. We woke at 7am ready to head off only to be greeted by high winds, a grey sky and heavy rain so went back to bed! The next day was similar but we agreed we had …
A week on from our arrival in Portugal, and we have worked our way down to Cascais, a popular tourist spot just a short distance from Lisbon. Unfortunately, the weather has turned rainy (it seems we can escape England, but not the English climate!), so we are waiting it out for a few days, and …
Now that we have had a few days to relax in Portugal, I have finally got round to editing the video footage we took during the passage. Hope you enjoy it…
It had been a long time in the planning, and the cause of some anxiety and trepidation, but I’m pleased to report that we have now successfully crossed the Biscay and arrived in Portugal! We were blessed with near perfect weather conditions: the feared Biscay swell and storms never materialised – if anything the wind …
Hurrah! Our dreams of sailing to the Mediterranean may soon become reality! We returned to Cornwall towards the end of April and kept ourselves busy during our quarantine by scrubbing the boat and putting up the sails and running rigging. On our joyous release from isolation the winds picked up…and up. We spent most of …