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Cruising around the Bay of Lagos
Took Common Sense out of the marina yesterday to try out her new sails
and her new electronics. Radar wouldn't work but we fixed that today - just a loose connection. Sails are superb!! Where in 6-8 knots of wind we would have been rolling about going nowhere we actually hit 3kn! Unbelievable. Then we ran out of wind. It's holiday season here on the Algarve so you get heaps of holiday makers. Two boats were headed across my bows out a couple of miles. A Cat was a fair way to sea of us and was no problem. The other one, a Beneteau 40-point-something, was under motor and on a collision course. I was wondering when he would do something and then I realised that there were 8 bikini clad girls on the foredeck (one of the other guys on my boat counted them, several times to make sure) and ONE guy, and NOBODY on the wheel. One of the girls must have said something to the guy and he jumped up and sprinted for the cockpit, bore away and just waved. Guess Colregs was the last thing on his mind up there. Had a pleasant lunch anchored off Alvor then some wind came back so we took off in 12-14kn. Common Sense hit 5.7 in wind 30deg over the port bow. Very easy motion - even took my hands off the wheel and she ran herself for a bit. Very pleased with the outcome even if I was most displeased at all the shelling out of the hard-earned. Almost ready to leave Portugal and head to Gibralter then Morocco. Two of our American friends who crossed over with us are in Sardinia and headed then to Tunisia where we will lay over for winter so we've made plans to catch up and try to get in the same marina. |
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:26:56 +0100, injipoint
wrote: Took Common Sense out of the marina yesterday to try out her new sails and her new electronics. Radar wouldn't work but we fixed that today - just a loose connection. Sails are superb!! Where in 6-8 knots of wind we would have been rolling about going nowhere we actually hit 3kn! Unbelievable. Then we ran out of wind. It's holiday season here on the Algarve so you get heaps of holiday makers. Two boats were headed across my bows out a couple of miles. A Cat was a fair way to sea of us and was no problem. The other one, a Beneteau 40-point-something, was under motor and on a collision course. I was wondering when he would do something and then I realised that there were 8 bikini clad girls on the foredeck (one of the other guys on my boat counted them, several times to make sure) and ONE guy, and NOBODY on the wheel. One of the girls must have said something to the guy and he jumped up and sprinted for the cockpit, bore away and just waved. Guess Colregs was the last thing on his mind up there. Had a pleasant lunch anchored off Alvor then some wind came back so we took off in 12-14kn. Common Sense hit 5.7 in wind 30deg over the port bow. Very easy motion - even took my hands off the wheel and she ran herself for a bit. Very pleased with the outcome even if I was most displeased at all the shelling out of the hard-earned. Almost ready to leave Portugal and head to Gibralter then Morocco. Two of our American friends who crossed over with us are in Sardinia and headed then to Tunisia where we will lay over for winter so we've made plans to catch up and try to get in the same marina. ==== Thanks for the update. It's good to hear from people who are actually out there cruising. We're in the midst of hatching a plan for an unusual destination next year but it's too early to talk about it publicly just yet. |
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On 19/08/2012 3:48 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:26:56 +0100, injipoint wrote: Took Common Sense out of the marina yesterday to try out her new sails and her new electronics. Radar wouldn't work but we fixed that today - just a loose connection. Sails are superb!! Where in 6-8 knots of wind we would have been rolling about going nowhere we actually hit 3kn! Unbelievable. Then we ran out of wind. It's holiday season here on the Algarve so you get heaps of holiday makers. Two boats were headed across my bows out a couple of miles. A Cat was a fair way to sea of us and was no problem. The other one, a Beneteau 40-point-something, was under motor and on a collision course. I was wondering when he would do something and then I realised that there were 8 bikini clad girls on the foredeck (one of the other guys on my boat counted them, several times to make sure) and ONE guy, and NOBODY on the wheel. One of the girls must have said something to the guy and he jumped up and sprinted for the cockpit, bore away and just waved. Guess Colregs was the last thing on his mind up there. Had a pleasant lunch anchored off Alvor then some wind came back so we took off in 12-14kn. Common Sense hit 5.7 in wind 30deg over the port bow. Very easy motion - even took my hands off the wheel and she ran herself for a bit. Very pleased with the outcome even if I was most displeased at all the shelling out of the hard-earned. Almost ready to leave Portugal and head to Gibralter then Morocco. Two of our American friends who crossed over with us are in Sardinia and headed then to Tunisia where we will lay over for winter so we've made plans to catch up and try to get in the same marina. ==== Thanks for the update. It's good to hear from people who are actually out there cruising. We're in the midst of hatching a plan for an unusual destination next year but it's too early to talk about it publicly just yet. That's got my interest up - I'll make a mental note to follow up. |
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