30th April, Figueira da Foz
Just arrived 15:15 today from Nazare. All OK, more later. Route updated.
27th April 2009, Some Photos, Still in Nazare
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OK here are the photos that we have selected to bring you up to date from Lagos to Nazare. We will probably be here until Thursday….
First photo is of Trevor & Lesley (Kishorn of Ross) saying their ‘goodbyes’ before leaving Lagos to head East, then BB at the computer, the next 19 are from the weekend of the 4th which we spent at John & Rita’s, the area is near Carrapateira and Bordeira. Then 10 photos from the area north-east of Silves and in Silves & Ferragudo (across the river from Portimao) when we spent the weekend of the 11th with Nick & Anne at their place. After that we have a picture of Trevor with Jan & Baukjen (from J&B), T and Liz from ‘Little Else’ and then Ju also from ‘Little Else’ – isn’t it amazing that we have to go all the way to Lagos to meet people that normally have sailed the waters around Ardfern and we hadn’t seen their boat before. Then we have a picture of us on ‘Sheer Fantasy’ with Bob & Di after our successful trip up to Cascais from Lagos, followed by 3 pictures from a park in Cascais near the marina and 7 from Lisbon, and lastly one of us at anchor in Cascais bay before leaving for Nazare, then one of the locals at Nazare.
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OK here are the photos that we have selected to bring you up to date from Lagos to Nazare. We will probably be here until Thursday….
First photo is of Trevor & Lesley (Kishorn of Ross) saying their ‘goodbyes’ before leaving Lagos to head East, then BB at the computer, the next 19 are from the weekend of the 4th which we spent at John & Rita’s, the area is near Carrapateira and Bordeira. Then 10 photos from the area north-east of Silves and in Silves & Ferragudo (across the river from Portimao) when we spent the weekend of the 11th with Nick & Anne at their place. After that we have a picture of Trevor with Jan & Baukjen (from J&B), T and Liz from ‘Little Else’ and then Ju also from ‘Little Else’ – isn’t it amazing that we have to go all the way to Lagos to meet people that normally have sailed the waters around Ardfern and we hadn’t seen their boat before. Then we have a picture of us on ‘Sheer Fantasy’ with Bob & Di after our successful trip up to Cascais from Lagos, followed by 3 pictures from a park in Cascais near the marina and 7 from Lisbon, and lastly one of us at anchor in Cascais bay before leaving for Nazare, then one of the locals at Nazare.
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24th April 2009, Nazare
24th April
Nazare. We left Cascais marina on the 22nd and spent a night at anchor in the bay ready for an early start on the 23rd (5am) to go to Nazare, all the forecasts looked like it should be a good sail – however the weather didn’t develop as it was predicted and it turned out to be another motor-sail. Another long day and when we arrived in Nazare at 19:30 the Porto Recreo was (had been) shut – however, we parked up on the pontoons that had only been put back in action the day before and we scrubbed off all the guano that the seagulls had built up over the previous months. The night at anchor I managed to contact Kishorn of Ross (Trevor & Lesley, anchored about 30 miles from Cartagena) on 8101, didn’t hear Grand Slam (Andy) and didn’t hear the Dutch net.
It may be that we move on from here tomorrow (Saturday) or there again it could be a week … Still working on the photos…..
Nazare. We left Cascais marina on the 22nd and spent a night at anchor in the bay ready for an early start on the 23rd (5am) to go to Nazare, all the forecasts looked like it should be a good sail – however the weather didn’t develop as it was predicted and it turned out to be another motor-sail. Another long day and when we arrived in Nazare at 19:30 the Porto Recreo was (had been) shut – however, we parked up on the pontoons that had only been put back in action the day before and we scrubbed off all the guano that the seagulls had built up over the previous months. The night at anchor I managed to contact Kishorn of Ross (Trevor & Lesley, anchored about 30 miles from Cartagena) on 8101, didn’t hear Grand Slam (Andy) and didn’t hear the Dutch net.
It may be that we move on from here tomorrow (Saturday) or there again it could be a week … Still working on the photos…..
19th April 2009, Cascais
The guessing game of ‘When do we Go?’ finished in a rush on Friday 17th - we had been following the weather forecasts during the week and on Thursday morning, Sunday looked like a reasonable day to head north, then in the afternoon it had changed and Saturday looked the better day; but on Friday it had changed again Sunday was ‘out’ Saturday was marginal but we would make Sines OK during a day sail. We still preferred to try for Cascais and Di from Sheer Fantasy suggested ‘is it possible to leave Friday afternoon and go overnight to Cascais’ – this was just after midday – it was possible – so we put ‘Plan D’ into action and had got organised, paid the bills, said some quick ‘Cheerios’ and were on our way (in company with Sheer Fantasy) by 15:15.
I know it was Friday and the superstitions etc but if we didn’t go it could have been another month – everyone was ‘itching’ to get the first long one over with. As we rounded the capes at Sagres and Sao Vicente the wind was picking up from about 12 to about 16 – 18 and moving round further on our port beam, the seas were also building so we dipped the flag in salute to Sao Vicente on the way round the cape and the seas settled to a more comfortable level and the winds steadied. We also got time to have a quick chat with Jan (on Dutch boat J&B) on 12353kh – he was still in Lagos but we couldn’t make the contact on 8101. The weather was very wet and miserable but the whole trip varied between some good sailing, reasonable motor-sailing, bright stars, blue skies and heavy rain with limited visibility. We didn’t see too much traffic during the night but had the radar on a couple of times to check out some of the lights we were seeing.
We arrived in Cascais about 16:00ish on Saturday, topped up with diesel, checked in and came round to the berth in some miserable heavy drizzle / rain – very Scottish ! So we tidied up the boat and got ready for an early night seeing as we didn’t sleep much during the overnight passage; but that’s the first major step in a northward direction and we are very pleased to have covered the 124 miles in a good time.
Not sure how long we are here for but will up-date the route map and get the photos ready for the next post on the blog.
I know it was Friday and the superstitions etc but if we didn’t go it could have been another month – everyone was ‘itching’ to get the first long one over with. As we rounded the capes at Sagres and Sao Vicente the wind was picking up from about 12 to about 16 – 18 and moving round further on our port beam, the seas were also building so we dipped the flag in salute to Sao Vicente on the way round the cape and the seas settled to a more comfortable level and the winds steadied. We also got time to have a quick chat with Jan (on Dutch boat J&B) on 12353kh – he was still in Lagos but we couldn’t make the contact on 8101. The weather was very wet and miserable but the whole trip varied between some good sailing, reasonable motor-sailing, bright stars, blue skies and heavy rain with limited visibility. We didn’t see too much traffic during the night but had the radar on a couple of times to check out some of the lights we were seeing.
We arrived in Cascais about 16:00ish on Saturday, topped up with diesel, checked in and came round to the berth in some miserable heavy drizzle / rain – very Scottish ! So we tidied up the boat and got ready for an early night seeing as we didn’t sleep much during the overnight passage; but that’s the first major step in a northward direction and we are very pleased to have covered the 124 miles in a good time.
Not sure how long we are here for but will up-date the route map and get the photos ready for the next post on the blog.
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