position update

Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Sat 20 Aug 2011 08:43
position 40:59N 08:49W
 
We had an interesting night last night.  On my (Katrin) watch there was a very confusing vessel which seemed to be heading straight for me.  This resulted in a turn round and eventually they spoke english on ch16 and it turned out that they were doing a survey which envolved towing 10 50 metres cables accross the sea.
This was the guarding ship.  Funnily we would have been fine on our course if I had not changed it to avoid the guarding vessel in the first place.
We had a bit of rain last night and it is cold at night now.
We hope to be in Pavoa de varzim (nr Porto) this afternoon