tome
New member
40deg 20N 25deg 58W, 6-7 knots, cog52T
Motorsailing out of Azores high now. The plan is to head to wpt 46degrees north, 15W to stay clear of Finisterre (north west tip of spain) where conditions can be sometimes nasty, and then head East to Sables D'olonnne.
However, at this rate we still have a few days to that waypoint and the barometer pressure is 1030 and still rising (hence less chance rather than more chance of wind)
The Azores is recommended. Or should that be the Azores are recommended. Not sure. Anyway, great scenery, nice people, use rubbish Portuguese or you can get by with English. I'll definitely go again sometime. We went close by the llha Graciosa and inside a small offshore island, quite spectacular.
However, whilst in Horta we spent almost the entire time in the very pleasant and bustling Peter's Cafe Sport, plastered with yacht burgees and flags sometimes four or five layers thick on all the walls and ceiling, and we didn't go further than the supermarket. For one meal I alone adventurously ordered the item on the menu described as "mixed prick". Paddy tried to pronounce this as "pree", but the waitress corrected him to the more embarrassing pronounciation. They seem to have chosen "prick" instead of "skewer" from the Portuguese-English dictionary. Or a least, I hope so.
On the last day we hired the large black Mercedes extended limousine with "we speak English" sign on the back to go to the supermarket, quite swish as the driver waited outside to take us back too. He asked for five euros but I managed to make him take ten. If I'd known it was that cheap we could have hired him to drive us round the island, dang. Left Horta just before 11am BST.
Yesterday we saw even more of the "sailing jellyfish" . We first saw these on the first leg of the trip, but only a few/ They're small purple-blue things that look initially like wrapper from a Cadbury's fairy cake or chocolate fingers, 3-4 inches long floating on the surface of the sea with a tiny sail. They always seem to be headed just off the wind, and since the Azores there have been thousands. We went through an entire racing fleet of many hundreds at one point. Sorry. Perhaps they're all babies and one day some giant adults will rip past us at 12knots.
No time to chatter here - I'm on dreaded Mother watch today. Everyone else seems to have a "day off" but I seem to take hours cooking things, use every pan and end up with more hours of washing up.
Motorsailing out of Azores high now. The plan is to head to wpt 46degrees north, 15W to stay clear of Finisterre (north west tip of spain) where conditions can be sometimes nasty, and then head East to Sables D'olonnne.
However, at this rate we still have a few days to that waypoint and the barometer pressure is 1030 and still rising (hence less chance rather than more chance of wind)
The Azores is recommended. Or should that be the Azores are recommended. Not sure. Anyway, great scenery, nice people, use rubbish Portuguese or you can get by with English. I'll definitely go again sometime. We went close by the llha Graciosa and inside a small offshore island, quite spectacular.
However, whilst in Horta we spent almost the entire time in the very pleasant and bustling Peter's Cafe Sport, plastered with yacht burgees and flags sometimes four or five layers thick on all the walls and ceiling, and we didn't go further than the supermarket. For one meal I alone adventurously ordered the item on the menu described as "mixed prick". Paddy tried to pronounce this as "pree", but the waitress corrected him to the more embarrassing pronounciation. They seem to have chosen "prick" instead of "skewer" from the Portuguese-English dictionary. Or a least, I hope so.
On the last day we hired the large black Mercedes extended limousine with "we speak English" sign on the back to go to the supermarket, quite swish as the driver waited outside to take us back too. He asked for five euros but I managed to make him take ten. If I'd known it was that cheap we could have hired him to drive us round the island, dang. Left Horta just before 11am BST.
Yesterday we saw even more of the "sailing jellyfish" . We first saw these on the first leg of the trip, but only a few/ They're small purple-blue things that look initially like wrapper from a Cadbury's fairy cake or chocolate fingers, 3-4 inches long floating on the surface of the sea with a tiny sail. They always seem to be headed just off the wind, and since the Azores there have been thousands. We went through an entire racing fleet of many hundreds at one point. Sorry. Perhaps they're all babies and one day some giant adults will rip past us at 12knots.
No time to chatter here - I'm on dreaded Mother watch today. Everyone else seems to have a "day off" but I seem to take hours cooking things, use every pan and end up with more hours of washing up.
