Bayona, Spain, Wednesday 10th September. 42:07.25 N 08:50.56W
Candida
Wed 10 Sep 2008 14:47
 Cabo Villano, with wind turbines. We passed this at
7pm last night.
Hardly have we left the shelter of Corunna harbour,
motoring directly
into the slight wind, when we make the first
of many seemingly obligatory
dolphin sightings over the course of the evening.
Equally obligatory
seems to be the fact that they are very hard to
photograph, so rather than
offer a dubious part of a tail fin we
are showing you the easier target of Cabo
Villano (above). We are sure there will be many
more Dolphin sightings
and eventually a good picture.
What little wind there is remains stubbornly on the
nose, so we motor on
under sunny skies making a good 6-7kts south along
the coast. A fair
swell has built up by dusk combining unpleasantly
with peering at a laptop
through a haze of burnt sausage smoke, making the
writer feel that his
state-of-the-art Scopoderm anti-seasickness tablets
might not be man enough
for the job. But the sausages are rescued for an
excellent supper and we move
into the first night of our watch system after a
spectacular sunset; two crew doing four hours at a time.
By 3.30/4am we notice, and are quickly engulfed by,
a fog bank which stays with us through the night.
Much peering through the murk, and at radar/chart
plotters etc results in a safe passage, with tricky
navigation, to
Bayona Marina, at the mouth of the Vigo estuary,
where we arrive rather tired at 0850, after a
21-hour passage.
We have decided we would rather not motor indefinitely through the fog,
which is exhausting in every way, so we will rest up in Bayona.
We hope it will clear soon and we can at last
start to sail south with better
visibility.
Roger wins the nav prize, Graeme the steering
prize, Judith the big breakfast prize and
Steve the prize for first performance on the
foghorn. Not that these are our only skills.
Job descriptions will change with demand on a daily
basis.
More news when we leave Bayona. As we write the fog
is already clearing slightly.
But for now we plan to catch up on some
sleep.
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