just to catch up on things.....

As blog virgins we are slowly getting to grips with the versatility of it but I also now realise that we dont always get the chronology right as time when sailing is a bit of a bendy thing. Two days at sea seemed a long time (great as well!!) whereas we have been alongside for best part of a day now and it seems like 5 minutes. So.....to catch up.
When we left Bayona we said goodbye to our great friend, Roger. Having been our support and all round good egg in Coruna, it had been wonderful to have him sailing with us for a few days.

Saying farewell was brief because we all new that if he could have afforded the time he would have stayed on for the full trip - thanks for the great help over the last year Roger and of course we will meet again very soon. As the picture shows, Roger had the Admirals en suite accommodation with a dipstick for the bath and vertically adjustable headlining. He was always comfortable and happy, never complained and only ever once had a slight smell of diesel!! Cheers Roger and best regards to you and yours.

When we left Bayona we hoped to make Sines in one hit and as it turned out the weather was as forecast and we had a great passage of 280 miles or so and did make it in one. The engine did her bit and we also had some good sailing with a current speed record on the surf of 9.3 knots (with some disregard to the course...). The only downside was heavy fog for about 6 hours before passing the entrance to Lisboa. The visibility was down to 2 dolphins, a measure we adopted as that was all we could see as they played with us for a while.

That's about it but here are some pics to be going on with. We will create a link soon to the full set of pics.