Barbate 36 11.003N 005 55.989W
Persephone... Cruiser/Racer
Nigel & Karen Goodhew...
Wed 3 Oct 2018 07:33
By the time we approached Tarifa though, the breeze was accelerating and the anchorage rather rolly. So we pressed on under full main and no2 genoa, passing two other yachts as we negotiated the shallows and banks in the Ensenada de Fuentra Aqueros....the “windy waters”.
And we cheated the tide/ current by sailing close in at Monte Camarinal, before gybing across the Bay of Barbate, arriving in the Marina just after 1900.
Another british yacht, Pearl, was with us as we tied up, also leaving the Med, but unlike us, after several years of Med Cruising.
Barbate marina is a distance from the town. We only stayed one night, so again, left the town visit for another time.
Tomorrow was to be Persephones second proper rounding of the Cape of Trafalgar, as we planned to sail across the bay of Cadiz and stop in Rota.
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