Camirinas
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Mon 15 Aug 2005 16:29
We are in Camirinas
Ria, planning to leave and sail around Cap Finisterre tomorrow, all being
well. It has been Fiesta in Camirinas, so food has been hard to come
by as the shops have been mainly closed for three days. We have been
living off a beach crawling with cockles and mussels, so shellfish has been the
order of the day with blackberry crumble from the wild brambles.
Mimi is sad for the cockles when they get cooked.... It has been blowing
force six for the last three days in the anchorage, which has made rowing ashore
a real challenge. Trying to row into a force six is almost
impossible, and very tiring.
Chris building Otti's
Cupboard
We have met a great family
living in a Looe Prawner which is 107 years old,called Vilona May, and it is
bright yellow. They are sailing to the West Indies. They
rebuilt the boat after it had sat for 18 years with the tide washing
through it on a westcountry estruary. Chris and Marsha have two
small children called Noah and Kezzie. Chris has been working on the Sarah
Grace and made a brilliant job of rebuilding Otti's cupboard to store more
stuff, and built a new door.
VALONA MAY
After much thought and
discussion, Chris and I have decided to try and sail to Madeira from the Rias in
Spain, without a third adult; a sail of about seven hundred miles which will
take us the better part of a week. This is far further than we have
ever been before offshore and we are unsure of how we are going to manage it, so
it will be a good trial before we consider the Atlantic.
Otti says,"Six days sounds
a bit dodgy but otherwise cool".
Mimi says,"It's ok as long
as I can eat rice cakes in the cockpit".
Mimi Fishing as the tide
rises in the evening.
"I was waiting for the fish
to come to me".
