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If anyone wants to know what it looks like.
We’ve had to motor sail nearly all day. Keeping inshore to avoid the orcas makes for a very confused sea and not enough wind to get the sails to set and not slam all over the place. Main in hard to discourage the rolling and burn some diesel. First 30 miles in thick fog! Yuk. Me stuck on the radar and AIS. Crew in watch.
 
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Did you go into Lagos or Portimao?

Where to next?
 
john_morris_uk said:
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If anyone wants to know what it looks like.
We’ve had to motor sail nearly all day. Keeping inshore to avoid the orcas makes for a very confused sea and not enough wind to get the sails to set and not slam all over the place. Main in hard to discourage the rolling and burn some diesel. First 30 miles in thick fog! Yuk. Me stuck on the radar and AIS. Crew in watch.
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Remember it well, it was late afternoon and the shore breeze was getting up as we went around, reefing like mad as we got by Sagres, made it to Lagos for 22.55, horrible trying to see the red and green inthe dark as we turned the corner
 
Kelpie said:
Enjoy the Algarve ?
What's your general plan?
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Cruise Algarve for the next week or so. Gibraltar for stores. Down the Moroccan coast calling at a few places before The Canaries. Transatlantic in January -first stop Barbados.
We’ve got a few thoughts after that but as the saying goes, write your plans in the sand at low tide.
 
john_morris_uk said:
Cruise Algarve for the next week or so. Gibraltar for stores. Down the Moroccan coast calling at a few places before The Canaries. Transatlantic in January -first stop Barbados.
We’ve got a few thoughts after that but as the saying goes, write your plans in the sand at low tide.
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Nice m we're doing the same thing really but coming from the other side- in Almerimar now. Not planning on stopping in Morocco unless we have to, but I've heard Rabat is nice. Will be interesting to see how you get on...
 
john_morris_uk said:
Cruise Algarve for the next week or so. Gibraltar for stores. Down the Moroccan coast calling at a few places before The Canaries. Transatlantic in January -first stop Barbados.
We’ve got a few thoughts after that but as the saying goes, write your plans in the sand at low tide.
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Woods Navy Rum in Gib high st, £5.99 a ltr, 57% proof, yum!
 
First time I rounded Cape St. Vincent, there was the fairly common poor visibility. We were fairly close in, running on soundings, quite comfortably. Then the building around the lighthouse appeared, lit from the inside, high up.

Known thereafter on our yacht as ' Alien Spaceship Lighthouse.'

Never forgotten in the 24 years since..... :)
 
capnsensible said:
First time I rounded Cape St. Vincent, there was the fairly common poor visibility. We were fairly close in, running on soundings, quite comfortably. Then the building around the lighthouse appeared, lit from the inside, high up.

Known thereafter on our yacht as ' Alien Spaceship Lighthouse.'

Never forgotten in the 24 years since..... :)
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Always been surprised that we didn’t rename it Cape Jervis rather than renaming the admiral.
 
SpiderMoobs said:
@john_morris_uk do you have the obligatory YouTube + Patreon cruiser's channel?
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Regrettably no bikini babe eye candy on board so no YouTube channel! An ordinary passage like ours is of no great interest.
We do run a blog for family and friends. Mrs M runs it but I usually edit for attempted accuracy of sailing and engineering terms. (We’ve mended/fitted a lot of things since we left. )
 
john_morris_uk said:
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If anyone wants to know what it looks like.
We’ve had to motor sail nearly all day. Keeping inshore to avoid the orcas makes for a very confused sea and not enough wind to get the sails to set and not slam all over the place. Main in hard to discourage the rolling and burn some diesel. First 30 miles in thick fog! Yuk. Me stuck on the radar and AIS. Crew in watch.
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The drive there is a bloody nightmare - the tourist buses are driven by maniacs! I'm still not certain how we managed to not be run off the road.
 
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