Underway Rabat, Morocco - Isla Grasioca, Canaries
Balvenie
Mark Farrell & Amanda Church
Sun 16 Oct 2011 12:58
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Noon Sunday 16 Oct 2011
32:11:86N 10:43:05W
We are just over half way, 230nm down
and about 225nm to run, hoping to arrive in the anchorage on Tuesday
morning.
We left Rabat around 2pm on Friday
with 5 other boats, we were the last to leave as we needed the high tide with
our deeper draft to clear the bar.
Friday night was a mixture of light
winds then no wind so we ended up motoring, avoiding fishing boats, surface
nets, long lines, pots and the odd freighter, there was little time for
sleep.
Saturday morning dawned clear but by
about 9am a heavy fog rolled in off the land, that added to the excitment for a
while but eventually we came out the other side. We were running
parallel to the Moroccan coast till late in to last night, so all the
fishing traffic continued.
We have been running under "big red",
our light wind MPS (multi purpose sail) for nearly 24 hours, the winds are
around 8-10 knots and it is quite comfortable.
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