37:36.70N 009:11.63W Five Hours to Cape St Vincent
Sailing due south at a respectable 7 kts under headsail
alone, we are about 5 hours from rounding Cape St Vincent and so into the
Algarve. Unless things change in the next few hours we have picked a good
time to round the notorious headland, as the seas are calm and the winds
abating. We left Cascais at 1000 hours this morning, just the 3 of us.
Sailing his been a bit on and off, with rather variable winds. We decided
to head 10 miles out to sea to find some wind and our decision proved a good
one, so we sat in the sunny cockpit with a sandwich lunch of home made bread
and the usual assortment of deli items under full sail for a couple of hours. The afternoon seemed to disappear into night quickly,
despite being entertained by a tiny migratory bird, no bigger than a tit that
hopped and flew around the deck and even below decks, catching and feasting on
flies! A better fly killer we could not have asked for! He left
when the food ran out. We watched him head south. Nigel |