Category: Spain

As is often the case with plans, it all went down the drain caused by a small detail. In this case the small detail was a small tin of sardines which I had the night before departure and I will spare you the details of my sickness all through the night. It wasn’t pleasant and I was totally exhausted the next morning lying in my bunk, feeling sorry for myself and not in the least bit ready for a three day offshore passage. (I know Webb Chiles doesn’t consider anything under a thousand miles a passage but for my own frail self I thought of this as one).

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The forecast called for almost no wind and there was just a very little bit of a breeze when I weighed anchor. I had decided to sail off and we were ghosting through the anchorage with only a half knot of speed but still able to steer and I got a bit of satisfaction out of this so we kept sailing out of the Ría. After two hours we had covered two miles and I decided to motor. 

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I had hoped to be able to sail but there was absolutely no wind. So we motored and even when the wind picked up about one hour before arrival (against us) I didn’t set sail. The waves were very confused and and I just wanted to arrive and not tack into very uncomfortable wind and wave (it was now blowing F6). With this wind the last hour turned into two because our engine wasn’t strong enough but we finally made it into the Ría de Cedeira and all of a sudden all was calm.

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It rained a lot in Ribadeo and the harbour turned out to be not as protected as I would have thought. Amy was constantly rolling and banging against the fenders and sleeping was getting harder and harder. I decided to repair my anemometer. After two days of climbing the mast and getting my bunk wet because I had left the hatch open when it started to rain (I was up on the mast and couldn’t get down fast enough), I became very frustrated and gave up.

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I have made it across the Bay of Biscay and instead of writing I have made a little film and recorded my own music in my “boat studio”. All this writing, picture taking, filming, recording and editing is great fun but it is also getting a bit out of hand time wise… so entries might be a bit more scarce from now on.
I still need to repair things on the boat and generally need more time 🙂

Continue reading “Across the Bay of Biscay to Ribadeo”