We arrived in La Coruna this morning and received a fabulous welcome from Swallow! Sausages for breakfast with steaming coffee - what a great way for the boats from Portishead to catch up. I had to include the Brompton Rally Bikes! Hecla and Ocean Rainbow were two pontoons away from Swallow so we took to […]
We're moving on before we get too comfortable! Here's a photo of the last supper (on board Ocean Rainbow this time - do note Blyth's flowers and Dave's solar powered sunflower) and one of Ares town from the bay.
This morning, all the fish in the world and we still couldn't catch anything! Might it be a case of 'throw your net on the other side of the ship'? James will keep trying but we look forward to the arrival of 'Swallow' and inveigling the help of master fisherman Elliot. Last night we had […]
Whilst dinghying ashore in St Mary’s, we almost hit a mooring line, took avoiding action and then found ourselves without power! We resorted to oars as we failed to start the engine again. We thought that we might have somehow damaged our outboard engine but decided that we would fix the problem in Spain and […]
Fab trip included flying the parasailor for 17 hours before the wind got too strong, travelled in an almost straight line covering 402.7nm (our passage plan was 400nm!) and arrived in Ares after 3 nights at sea. Our welcome from Jon (Hecla of Uist) was wonderful as were the beers that he brought on board […]
Wind on the nose is not ideal! The weather forecast promised a wind shift from south west to north west but it was south westerlies the whole way from Portishead to Barry and then on to the Scillies. Quite a marathon. We did stop for 4 hours in Barry to wait for the tide to […]