Sanxenxo, Agra and Portonovo
Football, Boat Repairs And A Brush With The Law! Portonovo, Sanxenxo and the Praia Agra anchorage sit alongside each other in Ria de Pontevedra. We wanted to visit Sanxenxo to get some rigging work and a full rigging inspection undertaken by a specialist rigger. Sanxenxo houses numerous superyachts and large sailing yachts and we knew […]
How To Retrieve A Reefing Line
A Very Tedious Post Val looks very happy as she shows off the boom above her head containing an errant reefing line that Paul very stupidly pulled into the boom when preparing to bend on the mainsail. This post is, indeed, very tedious. It will not be interesting to most of the sailors among you […]
Riveira – Better Than We Remembered!
We paid a flying visit here in 2019, an overnight stop as we headed North to explore Finisterra. We had arrived tired and grumpy on a dull day and were not enamoured with what we found. Our post entitled “Riveira – Useful Not Pretty!” can be found HERE , showing that we were not impressed […]
2021 and Sailing Resumes…..
Back to Xufre, Back In The Water – EEK! 2020 had been a surreal year for all of us, but light at the end of the tunnel appeared at the very end of the year in the form of approvals of Covid vaccinations. By the middle of May 2021 we had both had our two […]
Visiting Calypso in Covid Times.
2020 – A Year to Forget We had our flight booked to Santiago de Compostela for late April. Our plans for this year were to sail down the Portuguese coast and around the corner to the Algarve. Calypso was booked into the Sopramar yard at Lagos in early August, when we would fly home for […]
2019 Highlights and Statistics
Another Great Year!!! We said last year that 2018 was our most memorable and best year yet. This was a very different year in that we halted our slow travels South and ended the year in the same boatyard where we began 2019. That was entirely intentional. We had explored part of the North coast […]
Camping Our Way Home Across Northern Spain
With The Odd Bodega Visit of Course! Whilst this is supposedly a sailing blog, our camping excursions have become a very memorable part of our summer season. So much so that we had decided to lift out of the water a little earlier to allow us to travel to a few big cities, isolated country […]
2019 Year End – Back to the Yard
Having dropped the kids off at Vilagarcia, the following day we changed oil and oil and fuel filters (we don’t like old oil sitting in the engine and saildrive over winter) and headed 7.5nm over to the A Pobra Do Caraminal anchorage for one last night before then heading 4.5nm across to Xufre to be […]
More Visitors
celebrating an engagement…. The day after Mark and Sue left us we cleaned and washed bedding, turning around the guest cabins ready for our third set of visitors. We also rested our livers in readiness for the inevitable onslaught when the kids arrived! We were quite excited the next day as we had not seen […]
Visitors from home
Showing off some of our favourite haunts… We had family and friends visiting over the last 2 weeks of the season and planned to revisit some of our favourite places in the Rias Baixas – wind and weather permitting We had arrived in Combarro to welcome the first two sets of visitors. First to arrive […]