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Day 45: A Warren and a Daisy

Day 45: A Warren and a Daisy

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We woke up especially early today with the plan of getting to Vigo and a new marina early to prepare for our guests.

But looking out of the windows, we were met with walls of fog.

We waited a while, but set off in fog anyway with the fog horn at the ready, lights on and a lookout on the bow.

The fog continued to be patchy until we reached Vigo.

There are many ports in and around Vigo, and we went for the cheapest, that we could also book through the Navily app, to make things easy.

Guests

Warren and Daisy arrived in Porto last night, stayed in an AirBnb for the night and will be in Vigo after a little coach ride for noon and a short taxi trip.

The coach was €30 for both, and the taxi ride was only €12 + tip. Not bad considering the change of country due to our plans changing.

Soon after they arrived we headed to stock up with provisions for the coming week or so.

This trolly picture was either taken by Warren or Daisy, you pick, they both look the same

Relaxing was done and @wozzletron made a delicious grilled nectarine feta cheese Mediterranean salad for dinner, on the side of Kathryn’s fresh sourdough loaf for dinner, with a spot of wine.

Day 6: Plymouth to Saltash

Day 6: Plymouth to Saltash

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We were considering heading to Falmouth for day 6 (sailing to a schedule), but started heading out of Plymouth, reached the swell and decided that was not the day for us.

We turned did a U-turn to head back into the protection of Plymouth.

Along the way a pilot boat can and did a little doughnut around us, letting us know there was a great big warship following us in, and that we might want to move over a bit.

We had said before that it would be cool to sail under the Tamar bridge, so we took this opportunity to head a few miles up the river to get under it and anchor on the other side.

You can see the track heading out, turning around and heading up river below.

We ended up anchoring at the end of a collection of mooring buoys on the northwest side of the bridge, which also happened to be along side a rowing competition of some sort!

As we were staying around Plymouth we had the opportunity to invite a friend of Hannah aboard for dinner!

Instagram Post (June 25)

We had a pretty wonderful lasagne made mainly from tins, shipped Daisy back to shore rather late and settled in for the night.