Muros and Portosin
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Thu 29 Jul 2010 07:20
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Our position is 42:45.84N 08:56.79W
We left Camarinas early on Monday hoping to make it
round Finisterre before the forecast strong winds arrived. It had certainly been
windier in the night than previously but this had died away when we got up at
7am and we motored out of the ria. We soon had the foresail unrolled and poled
out and razzed past a Frenchman fishing off his yacht's transom. The wind
was reasonable initially and we were surfing down the waves at 8 knots with just
the jib, but as we approached Finisterre it fell away and Ted was able to try
the twin headsail technique using the genoa and the cruising chute. This enabled
us to maintain 4 knots as Finisterre came and went, looking particularly benign.
Once round the infamous headland the weather seemed to change completely and the
temperature rose about 10 degrees, allowing those crew members suffering from
the cold to shed their warm clothing and break out shorts and skimpy tops. It
was not deemed necessary to break the passage just past Finisterre so we
continued on to the Ria de Muros and headed for the anchorage at Muros itself.
This was extremely beautiful and having anchored
successfully in the Ensanada de Muros we were able to partake of an excellent
evening meal, cooked by Chris, in the cockpit, while watching other
people's less effective attempts and deploying the new sunshade and both wind
scoops. The wind scoops worked well in the night and by morning everyone agreed
that a duvet was needed.
The next morning we were surrounded by small boats
bearing divers who were fishing for local produce, as well as an actual fishing
boats using nets, which at one point looked as if it was going to encircle us.
The poorer fishermen just walked about in the water with rakes and baskets, and
as the tide went out they too got scarily close. We went ashore to enjoy the
town, which was very picturesque and active, and had an excellent 3 course
lunch of razor clams, salad and fish. It was still very hot - John photographed
a thermometer at the local farmacia reading 35 degrees - and the winds were
light when we pulled up the anchor (not attached to a pipe this time) and
motored across to the marina on the other side of the ria at
Portosin.
This offered opportunities to do washing - this
time without the machines being taken over by Germans - and use the WiFi -
albeit only available near the marina office. Chris was also able to swim off
the beach, but the rest thought it was undoubtedly too cold in the
water.
And so back to the boat for bread and cheese and
the promise of a new ria tomorrow. Weather online's forecast is for light winds
but the French people on the next boat are claiming 35 knots so we'll have to
see.
 At anchor in Ensanada de Muros
 The narrow streets of Muros
 Easy sailing off Cabo
Finisterre
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