Still here as the wind is forecast to be from the south for a day or three yet, and quite strong. It also rained hard all afternoon but we went and found a very good chandler who let us manage in Spanish with good humour and corrected us when it was too far off (we needed a 32A electric plug and a couple of shackles to re-route the jack-stays outside the shrouds so they don't foul the yankee sheet tracks).

 

Some photographs from our passage here:

 

‘Maybe’ off the Lizard.

90’ long with at least 8 people aboard. She was a little slower than us but carried on 15 miles or so down the Spanish coast.

 

 

Big waves in Biscay

 

But Poppy wasn’t bothered

(a male chaffinch according to the expedition’s consultant ornithologist Jim Pawsey)

 

Nor were several of his friends who didn’t stay long but carried on fluttering towards the south only 3’ above the sea.

 

Only 1/3 of the miles but it feels further.