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Hi, i found an internet caff in vivero, in Gallicia, N spain. Thanks for all contributions, v helpful.
middayish friday i attempted to round cap ortega (the v northerly bit of the n spanish coast) but it was too much wind on the nose 25 knots, so turned and went back to Vivero, little twn up a river a few miles back. It,s a sort of Sim-City versipon of Salcombe, protected, high hills around. Got fuel from a tanker - 20 mins for 2700 litres must be our speed-fuelling record.
We share a dock with a local police boat, Rodman 58 with hamilton waterjets and open exhausts looks quite a beastie.
The slightly-hot 95 degrees instead of 85 engines are probly due to partially-seaweedy primary strainers, now sorted.
We have tramped round the town a few times, finally (today) finding the internet caf shut this am, so found a bar-caff for lunch ad watched ace GP with spanish types v pleased that Alonso (from near here i think?) won.
This marina is excellent. The HM came along after two nights (we failed to anchor in the muddy bay) and sed look sorr i am gonna have to charge you, cos yerkno, the police boat s behind you. So he´s charged us 20 euros for 3 nights.
In these transit type ports there are always other boats going along the way, so we got the dinghy out and beetled round to "penny oyster" 40 footer from hamble, nice folk, yank skipper is taking it on down the coast as the owners fly back. General consensus is that tonight is tenable but (for a sprint-type mobo) monday am will be more benign, tho still a bit swelly. The sailyu boats are obv more knackered as they will cop it early or late at 5-7 knots. One of the boats has been here for two weeks the blimmin wimps.
Magnum, yep, you are right it is easier on a ship, but tere are numerous stories of the boats going off the deck, and the type of ship plus your boat´s position on board is critical with regard to the condition of the thing at the other end. The exhaust from the ship can damage gelcoat so an al over wrap is essential for a nice new boat. As suncoast and others say, we got mightily mucked about by sevenstar who didn´t turn up until weeks after contract date and (illegaly, ireckon) held back a lot of money. Peter and May sound a lot more decent to deal with.
Otherwise of course it is quite a trip, worth doing. Last 90 miles of bscay was fairly lairy, only 9 knots possible on autopilt, so i hand-whammed the thing around the waves for an hour to get flatter water, then had a kip for the last hour as Mooseno1 brought it in. V bad news that he flew back after only one leg, and apart from having no camera it cuts our options for night passages - tho the south africans (two bright guys on a gap year who are wanting to build miles and a free trip to the med, and you can just shuttup about yer three blokes on a mobo, nicho....) seem fine on watch so i may get some kip on overnight legs.
Tomorrow am i will grind out to the swell. Inshore before dawn we can´t go fast with pot buoys etc, but it seems fairly clear so i will go stright N for a few miles from mouth f the river (buoys usually around headlands) then tack back SW in ythe westerly as dawn breaks. 350 miles to Cascais, i plan to land there on the fuel dock about midnight ready for "Tresh meel litroosh gasoleo, servash fevor". Or possibly leixoes for evening fuel then an overnight to gibraltar, not decided yet, got both plans in four independent gps´s ...
Does trazie know portuguese for "hi mr cascais fuel dock attendant- remeber how you got drenched in diesel last time we were here eh, that was dead funny, hee hee!"
Loads of forumite texts with weather are v useful. I had four sepret texts with 30 mins on friday advsing NOT to proceed around finisterre, v welcome, ta.
Incidentally, the actual moving bits of the trip is not actually meant t coincide with busiest forum times, it just seems that way.
By no means certain where we´ll be late friday when mrs tcm is sposed to join us, but it wil be either malaga OR Alicante OR Palma OR Barcelona OR Nice cos that´s where easyjet flies to, see?
cheers all.
middayish friday i attempted to round cap ortega (the v northerly bit of the n spanish coast) but it was too much wind on the nose 25 knots, so turned and went back to Vivero, little twn up a river a few miles back. It,s a sort of Sim-City versipon of Salcombe, protected, high hills around. Got fuel from a tanker - 20 mins for 2700 litres must be our speed-fuelling record.
We share a dock with a local police boat, Rodman 58 with hamilton waterjets and open exhausts looks quite a beastie.
The slightly-hot 95 degrees instead of 85 engines are probly due to partially-seaweedy primary strainers, now sorted.
We have tramped round the town a few times, finally (today) finding the internet caf shut this am, so found a bar-caff for lunch ad watched ace GP with spanish types v pleased that Alonso (from near here i think?) won.
This marina is excellent. The HM came along after two nights (we failed to anchor in the muddy bay) and sed look sorr i am gonna have to charge you, cos yerkno, the police boat s behind you. So he´s charged us 20 euros for 3 nights.
In these transit type ports there are always other boats going along the way, so we got the dinghy out and beetled round to "penny oyster" 40 footer from hamble, nice folk, yank skipper is taking it on down the coast as the owners fly back. General consensus is that tonight is tenable but (for a sprint-type mobo) monday am will be more benign, tho still a bit swelly. The sailyu boats are obv more knackered as they will cop it early or late at 5-7 knots. One of the boats has been here for two weeks the blimmin wimps.
Magnum, yep, you are right it is easier on a ship, but tere are numerous stories of the boats going off the deck, and the type of ship plus your boat´s position on board is critical with regard to the condition of the thing at the other end. The exhaust from the ship can damage gelcoat so an al over wrap is essential for a nice new boat. As suncoast and others say, we got mightily mucked about by sevenstar who didn´t turn up until weeks after contract date and (illegaly, ireckon) held back a lot of money. Peter and May sound a lot more decent to deal with.
Otherwise of course it is quite a trip, worth doing. Last 90 miles of bscay was fairly lairy, only 9 knots possible on autopilt, so i hand-whammed the thing around the waves for an hour to get flatter water, then had a kip for the last hour as Mooseno1 brought it in. V bad news that he flew back after only one leg, and apart from having no camera it cuts our options for night passages - tho the south africans (two bright guys on a gap year who are wanting to build miles and a free trip to the med, and you can just shuttup about yer three blokes on a mobo, nicho....) seem fine on watch so i may get some kip on overnight legs.
Tomorrow am i will grind out to the swell. Inshore before dawn we can´t go fast with pot buoys etc, but it seems fairly clear so i will go stright N for a few miles from mouth f the river (buoys usually around headlands) then tack back SW in ythe westerly as dawn breaks. 350 miles to Cascais, i plan to land there on the fuel dock about midnight ready for "Tresh meel litroosh gasoleo, servash fevor". Or possibly leixoes for evening fuel then an overnight to gibraltar, not decided yet, got both plans in four independent gps´s ...
Does trazie know portuguese for "hi mr cascais fuel dock attendant- remeber how you got drenched in diesel last time we were here eh, that was dead funny, hee hee!"
Loads of forumite texts with weather are v useful. I had four sepret texts with 30 mins on friday advsing NOT to proceed around finisterre, v welcome, ta.
Incidentally, the actual moving bits of the trip is not actually meant t coincide with busiest forum times, it just seems that way.
By no means certain where we´ll be late friday when mrs tcm is sposed to join us, but it wil be either malaga OR Alicante OR Palma OR Barcelona OR Nice cos that´s where easyjet flies to, see?
cheers all.