41:11.13N 08:42.30W I’ve decided sailing is like childbirth – you forget the bad bits.  Yesterday sailing was boring, tiring and dangerous – this morning we’ve woken up to blue sunshine and I’m looking forward to planning the next step!  We set the alarm for 0500 yesterday and set out at first daylight.  It’s a long leg, 65 NM, but the forecast was good albeit a northerly wind.  The morning was uneventful with the now inevitable motorsailing but in the afternoon the Nortada (Portuguese trade wind) came in and conditions steadily deteriorated with increasing wind and building seas.  By the evening we’re battling high winds on the nose and breaking seas, still motorsailing with engine and well-reefed main.  Gordon has to helm as the autopilot can’t cope and I’m charged with watching for fishing pots (we’re now PAP, paranoid about pots!).  I kept assuming the wind would drop with nightfall but it’s still increasing as we approach Leixoes.  A good-sized fishing trawler converges on us and appears to cut in front of us but we realise he’s giving us the line into the harbour and gratefully follow him in, engine at full throttle and sail still up as we dare not drop it until we get some shelter.  Leixoes is a large, commercial harbour and it’s easy to see the marina tucked up in the corner.  Better still, the reception pontoon is empty and right near the entrance so we tie up just after 9pm, tired, wet and mightily relieved to be in.