Sines

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Chris & Katie Russell
Thu 13 Jul 2017 13:58
37:57.06N 08:51.95W
 
We left Cascais at about 08:30 and motored out towards our next goal - Sines (pronounced 'cinch')- a large commercial harbour some 50 odd miles to the south. At about 10:30 we were visited by an energetic pod of dolphins who, much to our delight, stayed with us for about 15 minutes playing in our bow wave. At about noon the expected afternoon north west trades kicked in and we took the main down and unrolled our new blue water downwind sail. It proved to be everything that had been promised - easy to control and use and behaved really well even with some changes of direction of the wind. We completed the remainder of the trip under sail and pulled into Sines harbour just before 17:00
Vasco de Gama was born here in the castle - but I am not sure what he would make of it now as it is a petrochemical terminal and large commercial port! However it has a marina and an attractive old town and you soon forget about the other horrid bits......an excellent fresh fish supper was washed down by a bottle of chilled Vinho Verde - an excellent way to end the day



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