Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Finally Left The Rio Guadiana Behind

Well, we left Ayamonte yesterday after deciding to break the journey to Rota at Mazagon rather than try it in one hop. The sail was not the best though it was mostly quite fast with a SE force 4-5 most of the time giving us a close reach. Frustratingly though we haven't worked out how to balance Sarah G very well on that point of sail which meant Henry the Navigator (AKA Aries windvane) struggled to keep her on course.

Still, we got here just before sundown after a lunchtime departure. We had to wait till then as the tides would have given us nasty over falls in the mouth of the Rio Guadiana. As ever, our resolve to only spend one day here has failed and we will move on to Rota tomorrow.

The bar here seems to have wifi which we will check out later. If it does, we may be able to get some pictures up.

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