Finally left Muros
The Adventures of Allegria & Crew
Peter Lansdale
Tue 10 Sep 2019 11:22
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42:14'.5,
08:43'.4
Cutting a very long story short we finally left
Muros yesterday and motored to Vigo, not much wind and we are unable to use the
mainsail. On our first attempt to leave Muros the autopilot failed again almost
immediately and we then had problems rolling the mainsail with the result of
much flogging of the sail and hence broken battens and some damage to the
sail.
So we have come to Vigo to effect repairs and get
the local Raymarine dealer to sort out the autopilot. In order to take the
sail down we anchored yesterday in Ensanada da Barra just inside Vigo Ria and
proceeded to unroll the sail, remove the vertical battens and lower the sail,
all in quite a breeze. A Spanish/English couple, Enrique and Sue Cameselle came
over in their dinghy as they realised some help would be useful. Within minutes
their children were shouting from their own boat. Enrique's dinghy wasn't tied
properly and floated away. Quick scramble to launch ours and all was
recovered. We then dealt with our mainsail.
Now we are in Vigo marina in the centre of the city
for a few days until we can get everything fixed.
Some pictures below of Muros, a lovely town with
very friendly small marina which has the best marina wifi I have ever come
across.
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