Sunday morning. It had been a double blow for Marcus because he was going to
miss his Granny for some time and he had also learned that he had to share
his Granny with others. A bit of a shock.
The forecasts were mixed with little good news on offer.
We set course for Ushant to try to miss the worst of the weather and we did.
22 hours later we stopped in Ushant and as the wind is seldom in the East .
Also the forecasts were still mixed and not that good news. After we had
arrived the rain started, wind shifted to the west, we rolled, Ushant was
out of season and most places were closed and there was no internet café.
Not that many browny points!
Despite all this I did replenish the hankies I had left behind and the sun
shone on Tuesday when we left for La Corunna.
Forecasts were still mixed and the crossing to La Corunna was a pussy cat
compared to the previous year which was a bit of a tiger. Still pussy cats
either go to sleep and we motored through the calms and she showed her claws
when the wind headed us at F 6 as we made our landfall making 4 knots or
less. The time to final way point kept getting longer each hour!
We finally anchored in the rain in Carino, a minor industrial port which was
the best port we could make. We had motored through the calms and finally
had to blast our way into the wind at the end. 39 hours motoring and two and
a half days overall. Still we saw so many dolphins that by the end the cry
of 'Dolphins' no longer elicited any response from the crew.
Carino dried her tears of rain in the morning, the street market was lively
and kind to us and we moved West to Ria Cadeira where we found the Navionics
chart on the plotter was not only 100 m out but also showed a non existent
island that we sailed through.
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