Life aboard a sailboat

Keyala was skeptical about the trip to the sail boat. The last two people who lifted her bag were concerned that she was taking this much luggage aboard a small boat until she explained she was travelling for 6 months.

When we arrived to the little fishing island of Culatra, people sunbaking and swimming off the jetty. It was hot so mum went to get some ice for our boat and some cold beer and wine.

Andre picked us up on his little dinghy to take us to our Airbnb boat 300m from shore. We approached a half sunken boat which was around the time Andre told us we’d been upgraded to a bigger boat, the Alpha!

The boat was cute and small. The toilet was so tiny you had to drop your pants and back into it because you couldn’t stand or turn in the little crevice that contained the toilet. We were strongly warned that flushing the loo paper would require scuba divers and €180 to unblock the pipes.

The kitchen contained a rocking gas stove top, two salt water taps and a fridge that cooled to only 13 degrees.

Luckily the sunsets were spectacular. And we are a sucker for sunsets. And Algarve rose and cold beer.Read more