Shore Powerless in Muxia with Yummy Goose Barnacles
12 July 2017 | Muxia
Ag/dreich
We had a beautiful sail down from a Coruña to Camariñas in blazing sunshine with 12 knots SW winds on a beam reach - I think that's what was promised...?
Instead we got 20knts on the nose in a heaving sea I can only compare to the Mull of Kintyre on a grey day with engine on almost constantly for 11 hours. Yip, 50mls in 11 hours - even Brian's first Mini was faster than us.
And when we got to the warm and welcoming little harbour of Camiriñas, there was nothing warm nor welcoming in the only available berth rafting up against a very piratey looking Spanish yacht so we upped fenders and went to Muxia instead and got a warm and welcoming reception from a young guy on a turbo charged electric bike. He speeds faster than a Ferrari or have my speed buds been spoiled by our stately progress? Anyway, turns out he's harbourmaster come petrol station manager simultaneously. All conversations abruptly interrupted by a never ending stream of cars wanting filled up so they can go fast. So it took a while to work out that our shore power line is shorting the entire marina's supply...
It was a long time before Kinsale's quiches and Heinz' baked beans were served last night. And our shore powerlessness will no doubt provide today's big adventures in nautucalia...whilst a storm brews out in the Atlantic. For days. And days. And days.
More to come from Muxia and its scrmmy looking barnacles, I fear...