Peniche ⚓

Even though it is only 20nm from Nazaré to Peniche, sometimes these shorter trips feel like they last forever. When we leave the port of Nazaré we briefly feel very excited because it looks like we can sail today! Unfortunately, this joyful moment only lasts for about half an hour. We are "doomed" to turn on our engine Perky (Perkins 50 HP) again. We know we are spoiled to be able to do this sailing trip, but we do struggle a bit these days to stay positive and keep our energy up. We haven't been able to have a good sail in a long time now and we can barely see a thing because of the fog. You could argue, then why do you motor on? Because the weather forecasts tell us the south westerly winds will continue to blow along the coast here. And if more favorable winds are predicted, they blow up to 35 knots. We are still hopeful that now that we are getting close to Lisbon, we only need 3 good days of no southern winds to get to Sesimbra, followed by Sines and finally Sagres in the Algarve! We also look forward to have some downtime in Lisbon and to go back to Sesimbra. When we brought Nimrod to the Netherlands from Albufeira two years, we almost spend a week in Sesimbra. We don't mind to do so again!

We had another motivation booster today, we caught 3 mackerels again! Bart had been texting Equinox, a trimaran on their fourth big trip already!, all day and we offered to donate one of our mackerels to them. Instead they invited us over for a BBQ dinner together with the Noordster since the Noordster had caught a mackerel as well. We were proud of our catch of the day, but we weren't ready for the size and taste of Noordster's mackerel! They had caught a Spanish mackerel, they look and taste more like tuna than mackerel. Delicious 😋 and nice to meet some new people, especially after another foggy day 😉Читать далее