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As soon as Roy
and Jane arrived on Tuesday 13th November, it was a quick departure
from Naples to Gibraltar.
The initial
passage was not as smooth as we had hoped, due to winds and seas, especially on
the western side of Sardinia. If we were running 12 hours later we would have
run into headwinds off Palma. Very glad we missed that! Even so, with some
unsettled weather around Gibraltar we arrived to loads of cargo ships; and the fanfare
of lightning, rain and squalls and finally finished eveything on arrival in the
early hours of Sunday morning.
We saw a few
dolphins underway and the ones at night off Spain, lit by phosphorescence
“torpedoing” their way towards the yacht, were spectacular to see.
Sunday was spent
provisioning for the next leg and waiting on fuel which didn’t arrive until
Monday morning, finally allowing us to depart in the early afternoon for the
next leg across the Atlantic.
We had a good
exit from the Gibraltar traffic channel, luckily managing to get a quick break
allowing us to cross.
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| Gibraltar |
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19,000 gallons of fuel later... ...Roy and Joc find it's time for a well-deserved beer!!! |
Nice to get the news from the passage!
ReplyDeleteWishing you a safe passage as in the next week or so,there are two low pressure systems traveling your way over the N. Atlantic.
I'll be thinking of you!
I can see you have reached the Antilles...
ReplyDeleteHopefully the crossing was not too hard with the bad weather over the Atlantic.
Tell us how it went!
Jack.