Birthday Boy!
Saturday 29 August
We have just found out it’s Will’s birthday today!
He took this footage of us leaving Porto yesterday. It doesn’t quite do justice to the crazy leaping and crashing as we left port, but it gives you the idea!
At first the winds were kind and we sailed all night and for most of the morning. Here’s the first sunset:
And here’s the first night:
And sunrise with the birthday boy.
Our watches start at 8pm with 3 hours on and three hours off in pairs until 8 am.
During the day we rest when we feel like it.
We enjoyed a birthday breakfast of sausage, scrambled egg, tomato and toast – yum! It’s also good to have a hungry and much happier crew today!
Sadly the wind died and we are now on a mission to find an elusive band of Northerly wind filling in from the South (according to forecasts!). So it was on and off sailing all day – with a bit too much off.
There is shipping out here and we keep an eye on the AIS to look out for the huge monster cargo ships.
We haven’t seen any other yachts. And we are beyond the fishing boats and lobster pots.
As it’s so calm, we got our table out and had lasagne and salad followed by cake and tinned peaches. We donned our leis in honour of Will catching up with me in years of wisdom.
I took advantage of the calm to raise our Madeira courtesy flag.
Will and I were on watch for sunset!
Fun fact: the boat that suffered an orca attack off Porto the day before we set off was trailing exactly the same orca deterrent as us!
And there have been several more attacks near where we have been!
We are now out of the attack zone and La Bamba has proved yet again that she is a lucky boat!
Only 380 miles to go!
TBC