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 shows several ships from the 17th century and tells the fascinating history of navigation. Having sailed so far, we have…
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 plate and we took a quick morning swim in the cold water. Cooled and refreshed, we continued to sail southwards…
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 Aveiro was to find a way through hundreds of small fisher boats in the mouth of the Aveiro lagoon. We…
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 thankful for their knowledgable and efficient help and most of all for their kind and warmhearted welcoming. They told us…
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 cloud wall was impressive and quickly we were off white. It is a strange feeling to be totally surrounded by…
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 dish: goose barnacles. Goose barnacles are crustaceans that live attached to cliffs and the best are found on the Costa…
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 Swedish boat, Relief, with Cecilia and Håkan on board and it felt a little bit like home to exchange experiences…
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 the peninsula. The name Getaria might come from the Latin word “cetaria”, which means “a place where the fish is…
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 from Cap Ferret, but when we’ve made it, we had a wonderful sail south to San Sebastian. We proudly present…
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 Ferret and ask if the channel to Archachon is deep enough. We learn that its possible for us to proceed…