Lisbon and the mu-sea-um

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On Thursday the 10th of September we took an Uber to Lisbon to learn about the Portuguese adventurous history at sea in the maritime museum. The Museum was founded in 1863 by King Luis and…

Nazarea to Cascais

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We had a very nice eleven hours sail to Nazaré, which is a favourite spot for surfers with waves at a height of 35 meters! As we were there, the sea was flat as a…

Aveiro and new friends

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Our talented “technicismos” who installed the new AIS invited us to come and see their beautiful hometown, Aveiro, also called Venice of Portugal. The most difficult part on the 35 M sail from Porto to…

Cuatro navegadores

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Marina Douro found us a very nice place to dock and on Saturday morning Joao and Miguel came and checked the 12 years old malfunctioning AIS and quickly installed a new one. We are very…

Dolphins and dew

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Portugal was over new destination and we had to start early and were quickly rewarded with an amazing view and company from a dolphin family. Soon we were cloked in the early morning brume. The…

Goose barnacles and Baiona

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Nice sunny weather and fair wind brought us 34 NM further south to the pleasant little bay of Ria de Corme where we dropped the anchor and ruddered into the town to try the special…

Costa da Morte

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With all our nice memories from Getaria, we continued and sailed 25 hours along the impressive Spanish coast and arrived to Gijon after 145 NM sail on the calm sea. In Gijon we met another…

Fish is the dish in Getaria

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We sail along the bonny moss green Basque coast of Spain from San Sebastian and are getting closer to El Raton (the mouse) – the nick name of Getaria in view of the shape of…

First catch

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We left Archachon early in the morning and the swell was still strong with 2,5m high waves. We rode with the tide, but it was more like a rodeo and not easy to steer out…

Anchoring in Archachon

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We plan to sail south to Spain and San Sebastian, but the swell of 2,5 meters from a storm on the eastern side of Biscaya changes our plans and we call the semaphore of Cap…