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A week long Levanter kept us in Gibraltar longer than anticipated and these easterly winds create a large cloud cap over the west side of the rock keeping everything in the shade while everywhere around is under blue skies. These winds also create an accelerate zone making leaving and entering port tricky.

We finally made the crossing to Tangier on the 30^th only to find that the tiny marina was full and the port authorities unwilling to find another berth for us so we made a hasty change of plans and sailed on to Asilah on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

The pilot book shows that this is a small fishing port where it is possible to anchor but that the sand bar at the entrance and also the depths inside near carefully monitoring as you enter. In the event there was no wind and very little swell and entry was quite straightforward.

However there is little room for a boat of our draft and we had to search out the best spot on a falling tide. In the event we still had to move closer to the entrance either side of low water and even then felt the boat touch the sandy bottom once or twice. As it was we decided not to prolong our stay and left early the following morning in order to avoid the next low tide.