1st August Peurto Genoves to Anchorage in Ensuenda de la Fuenta

Sealion
Richard Martin
Sun 3 Aug 2008 12:58
This was the longest trip Alison has made about 50 miles. The winds were once again very light, so much so that the direction was quite variable so off we went at about 9.00am closely followed by the Swedish boat Fejm who had been at anchor with us overnight.
 
The wind never filled in so we ended up motoring all day - Fejm clearly had the same end objective and boat speed so we spent all day only 100mtrs apart. The coastline was probably the most beautiful we have seen with mountains coming down to the sea with small coves and beaches and very few buildings. Clearly not a tourist area.
 
We passed the small port of Garruchi with a few ships tied up to the docks.
 
Eventually we arrive at a lovely little cove (Ensuenda de la Fuenta) sheltered by a high rocky hill from the Westerlies running/forecast - a few small boats were anchored with us and the Swedish Boat Fejm, later joined by a Spannish Janneau 44.
 
Swimming off the boat was great in lovely clear water at 27 degrees - YES 27
 
The dream came somewhat to an end during the night when the wind decided to shift to the one qtr that the bay was exposed to ie, NE (not forcasted at all) - In the middle of the night we had 15/16knots of wind with increasing sized waves coming into the bay, I did wonder if we were going to have to sail on in the middle of the night. Fortunately the anchor held well and whilst it wasn;t the most comfortable of nights we survived - Having said that Alison seemed to sleep well enough - 'ignorance is bliss'

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