Date: 25/10/07

Location: Nazare

Lat/Lon: 39:45.48N 009:04.74

DOUGLAS:

Sailed to Nazare the next morning with seriously large following rollers, probably left over from some gale up north. Sailing along the Portuguese coast is fairly boring scenery-wise as there is nothing but beach. It’s like sailing along Westport for 250 miles. However, the approach to Nazare was a welcome change with a headland and decent sized cliffs. The underwater profile is more interesting with a five thousand metre abyss emanating from Nazare Bay. Nazare was the first place we had come across where tourism is starting to take over as the main industry. For the first time on the passage down the coast we passed rows of holiday hotels built just yards from the beach. Nazare has a little marina in the corner of a busy fishing harbour run by an English couple. We again met up with Jack and Adrie’n, the French couple we’d met at Viana, so we had them and a Welsh couple aboard. It turns out that the Welsh chap writes for PBO and had recently done an article on Laptops aboard yachts. Bev had a touch of a cold for a couple of days and on arrival at Nazare wasn’t feeling very well so we stayed for two nights.