Culatra to Albufeira Marina
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Wed 20 Jun 2012 10:53
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37:05.10N 08:15.53W
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Distance Run 24 nm
The wind was very light when we set off from
Culatra a little after 9.30am so we motored along for a couple of hours.
We had to take a large detour around a large fish farm which only appeared in
May this year (which means it is not on any of our charts). Fortunately we
had received a notification from the 'Lagos Navigators Club' a few weeks ago
with some rough coordinates. This proved very useful when we travelled
east a week or so ago. Sadly we know of one catamaran who didn't know
about the fish farm and ran over some of the nets in the dark causing a lot of
damage to the propellers and shafts (being a cat they have two
engines).
Eventually we were able to sail for a couple of
hours, about nine miles, bending along the coast to the west.
We checked into Albufeira marina about 14.30 and
settled in for the afternoon.
Albufeira Marina is a strange place with multi
coloured buildings all around. The pastel colours are nice but don't work
as well as they do in the Caribbean because the buildings have been painted
different colours in small areas. We think it looks a bit like
Legoland:-
 Unfortunately a lot of the shops are still not
let. There is not much passing traffic as the marina lies a few miles west
of Albufeira town.
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