Diary Entry

Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Tue 5 Oct 2010 12:38
Our position is 38:41.457N 09:25.148W
 
5th October
 
The grib files that we recieved at lunchtime yesterday showed the rather narrow weather window we had to get to Porto Santo had just got narrower and we were going to get caught in 30kt head winds for at least the last 12 hours of our passage. Not a good prospect, so we tuned round and headed back to Cascais, feeling frustrated and rather fed up.
The only bonus was that shortly after our about turn, we all saw whales. as they seem to be of different sizes we assume that there was a few of them heading south.
 
We arrived here in the dark at about 9:30 and after the mandatory check in with security we went back to the berth we had left 14hours earlier and Glen cooked a meal.
 
This morning has been spent liasing with Kay to come up with a new plan, checking flights, shopping and  refuelling Moorglade.
 The new plan is for Glen, Peter and I to sail down to Sines tomorrow, wait for the bad weather to pass through on Friday and then aim for Lagos, arriving, we hope, late on Saturday evening.
 
Lagos will then be the departure point for us to sail straight to the Canaries.
 
EJW