The High Pressure System
26 September 2009 | Ria de Vigo
is staying. Warm and sunny, wonderful weather, but very light air. We took off in the morning on abreeze that just made some tiny wave patterns in the water. Hoisted the Main and weighed anchor. The genou went up seconds later and pushed us eastwards, close hauled for ten minutes or thereabout before the wind died again. We kept on for an hour maybe at enough speed to get steeerage, but later motored the last three miles to a bay on the northern shore ov Ria de Vigo. We hope to get more shelter from the swell here. No point in going to Bayona since these winds won't get us to Portugal anyway, we can aswell enjoy it here. It's Saturday, so plenty of local boats around including a passengerferry that gose to the restaurant opposite to our las anchorage.
We spent a lazy afternoon in the cockpit, reading and watching the local kids having a dinghy race around the anchored boats. Kids are the same everywhere, and parents too, who don't take their responsibility too seriously at times. No life vests either.
At last we found a Wifi here we could hook up to in the evening, so a bunch of blog posts can get published again, together with e-mails and updates.