Quick Update

We have been anchored in Portimao for the last couple of days and as the boatyard looks quite good here we are planning on craning out and doing some of the essential stuff that we need to do.

The most important thing is to get the bottom scrubbed off but we will also give the engine some TLC and a few other things.

We will also do some serious planning on where to go from here. We would still very much like to go to the Azores but the winds are not very encouraging once you are out here with fresh to strong northerlies for the first few hundred miles and then a strong possibility of calms for the rest. Other options are to head south to Morocco and then Madeira before carrying on to the Canaries and so on.

A detailed description of what we have been doing and what we are going to do will be forthcoming to bore everyone shortly.

The weather looks like blowing up for a few days so we may well wind up in the Marina Portimao before getting lifted out.