Adventures of Sailing Yacht Mist
La Gomera was really nice but it was time to get closer to Gran Canaria where we have booked a berth in Puerto Rico marina for Christmas. We left Marina San Sebastian at nine fifteen in the morning. Nice sailing at first but the wind dropped and we had to motor. A pod of pilot …
After 4 days of cleaning the boat from ash we felt we had enough of La Palma and it was time to move on. We left Santa Cruz de La Palma late in the afternoon as we wanted to get to Gomera at dawn. Very little wind so we motored slowly towards Marina La Gomera …
After 11 days in Quinta do Lordo it was time to move on. It was very difficult to get a berth or mooring anywhere in the Canaries but Marina Santa Cruz de La Palma welcomed us so together with sy Capella we left Quinta do Lordo in the morning November 18th. Really good sailing to …
From Quinta do Lordo we took the bus to Machico to get some provisions. We went for a hike to Punta de Sao Lorenzo, not far from the marina. Together with the Capella crew we hired a car and went for a trip around the island. We visited Funchal and Porto Moniz and went to …
We left Porto Santo just before noon, without being ashore. We did get one night of descent sleep though. Our friends on sy Capella arrived soon after and we went out for dinner together. The distance to Quinta do Lorde was only 30 nautical miles and after 6 hours sailing wing on wing we arrived …
After 5 day in Porto we set off for Porto Santo, to get further south and to meet our friends on sy Capella and sy Star. The weather forecast promised a beam reach and around 20 knots of wind. We left Porto at first light but instead of a beam reach we where close hauled …
After a couple of days in A Coruna it was time to continue south. We left at dawn after a stop at the fuel dock. Our plan was to go to Camarinas but when we got there we decided to continue south to Porto, motoring all night. We arrived at Porto after 31 hours at …
We left Viveiro at dawn. Light winds and to be sure to reach A Coruna before dusk we had to motorsail. We arrived just after 5 pm and was given a good berth by the marina staff. We Took a walk into the town. There was a lot of activities going on. The next day …
We left Luarca at 6 am, rather tired after two nights with very little sleep. Light winds meant motoring ones again. We could sail for a short while at lunchtime and then the wind died again. At 4 pm we arrived at Viveiro marina. We went for a walk and did some provisioning at the …
After two days in Gijon we continued westwards. The winds were light and we could only sail an hour or so and had to motor the rest of the way to Luarca. There was no marina in Luarca but there was 4 buoys for visiting yachts inside the breakwater. There was some bad weather coming …
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