An update from Bayona
Wallace's Sailing Adventure on "Arbella"
Mike and Vicki Wallace
Sun 7 Oct 2012 16:26
Arbella is safely in Bayona, Spain, where I am aboard for a few days, on my
way to Morocco for business. I am doing this shortened trip alone as my
best helmswoman developed a medical problem that needs to be treated in
Maryland. Consequently, no international travel, which means she cannot do
Canaries & Atlantic crossing. She is very disappointed but happy her
treatments seem to be working & with improvement she will be back on Arbella
this winter sailing the BVI's. She insisted that I continue the history
entries...Bayona is in Galicia, Spain, another area with Celtic influence.
When the Irish Clan Kings were defeated in 1601, in the Battle of Kinsale
(see the entry from July 14 and August 17), the "Flight of the Geese" was
the name given to the next 10 year period in Ireland as the kings fled
Ireland rather than be "drawn and quartered" by the English; many came here,
and others went to France! Further history... after Christopher Columbus
discovered America (and the "Santa Maria" actually sank in American waters),
the two ships, Nina and Pinta, returned, with the Pinta landing in
BAYONA....so this was THE FIRST point of land in "the old country" to
receive word of the discovery of the New World. The captain of the Pinta
was Alonso Pinzon and was actually first to communicate the discovery;
Columbus returned on the Nina, which landed in Lisbon, Portugal, 3 days
later....with "old news"! Mike