Cascais
Innamorata
Steve & Carol
Wed 13 Sep 2017 15:35
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38:41.76N 009:24.857W
09/09/2017 We decided to set off for Cascais a
day earlier than planned as weather looking like very strong winds for a few
days after tomorrow. Tomorrow’s forecast was gentle NW wind increasing and going
more northerly overnight, so we set off Saturday morning - had a good sail
cruising chute and mizzen, dolphins came for a play - a couple of mums and their
babies - very cute. while at the front of the boat watching them Steve noticed
that the cruising chute was chaffing where the rope goes through the new
bowsprit - cruising chute down and we assess the rope - a few mins longer or
stronger wind and it would have chaffed through completely!! - not happy with
Seldon! We put a block on and change the setup and once again hoist the cruising
chute - it seems to work better and no chaffing. The wind stayed until the early
hours of morning when instead of increasing it died off and we had to motor for
the last few hours, that gave us a chance to make water and we were able to run
watermaker until we arrived at Cascais without the wires getting too
hot.
We anchored off town at Cascais with quite a few other boats. We
spent a few days there did some shopping, Steve helped Frank – on Louanne a boat
we met in Spain, isolate the problem he had with his bowthruster – he was given
a bottle of white Port as a thank you and has discovered he's rather partial to
it with tonic water – apparently its the new Gin and tonic!
My laptop crashed along with my external hard
drive which has all my photos on – i have got the lap top running again but
haven’t managed to sort the hard drive – hence I don't have any photos for the
blog!
We stayed at Cascais to meet up with a friend
form New Zealand, Jon and his partner Rhina which was great – they are on
holiday about 30 Km away and had a lovely afternoon/ evening with them. Although
we like Cascais the anchorage gets very
windy and we had 25-30 knots wind for 2 nights in a row and enough is enough we
are moving on! |