Caramiñal to Cambados
24/May/2007 14:11 Filed in: Ria de Arosa
An early night last night and up reasonably early this morning. Sad to say the quality of the marina shore facilities does not reflect the high beth cost.
Today it is one year since we left Dartmouth on this trip. We have sailed 2487.2 miles, visited 6 countries and called at 55 different ports and anchorages.
Had a quick run ashore for a coffee and a look around. A beautiful sunny day in a nice little town. El Pais reported this morning that the Spanish Americas Cup team had achieved third place in the qualifing rounds having been defeated by New Zealand 5-2. This is a very impressive achievement. They did better that the Americans who were beaten by Italy 5-1 while other sailing big hitters, the UK, France and Australia were nowhere to be seen. Well done Spain.
Back on board I left the mooring at 12:50 and anchored off the Playa Caramiñal for an hour or so while I sorted the boat out and plotted the course for Cambados. To quote the Galicia harbour guide "Entrance to the harbour entails quite a lot of difficulty, as you have to clear a large number of unmarked shoals and rafts, which requires expert knowledge of the area". This is overstating it a bit but I use a large scale paper chart and my Navionics electronic charts. Since I got the new display and Navionics charts last September they have proven to be much more up to date and accurate than the paper charts.
Isla Guidoro beacon and the rocky shoals behind
and on our starboard side Isla Rua with it's little lighthose.
With a NW 10kn breeze I was able to sail off the anchorage at 14:55 using the Ghosting Genoa. There followed a lovely sail all the way into Cambados-Tragove harbour where I furled the sail and motored 2-300 metres to the berth arriving at 17:50. Pilotage inwards was pretty straight forward but there were some nasty rocks and shoals along the way. The wind increased to 17kn at times, a bit above Ghosting Genoa speed but I left it up anyway.
The pontoons in Cambados-Tragove were designed for Med style mooring with haul-off lines. However, the marina is so little used that the 3 other yachts there were moored fore and aft alongside using haul off lines to stay a metre or so off the pontoons and avoid wash damage from passing fishing boats. I did the same although the haul off lines were heavily encrusted with weed.
I took a quick run ashore but rain threatened and I got back just before the first of several thunder storms passed through.
Today it is one year since we left Dartmouth on this trip. We have sailed 2487.2 miles, visited 6 countries and called at 55 different ports and anchorages.
Had a quick run ashore for a coffee and a look around. A beautiful sunny day in a nice little town. El Pais reported this morning that the Spanish Americas Cup team had achieved third place in the qualifing rounds having been defeated by New Zealand 5-2. This is a very impressive achievement. They did better that the Americans who were beaten by Italy 5-1 while other sailing big hitters, the UK, France and Australia were nowhere to be seen. Well done Spain.
Back on board I left the mooring at 12:50 and anchored off the Playa Caramiñal for an hour or so while I sorted the boat out and plotted the course for Cambados. To quote the Galicia harbour guide "Entrance to the harbour entails quite a lot of difficulty, as you have to clear a large number of unmarked shoals and rafts, which requires expert knowledge of the area". This is overstating it a bit but I use a large scale paper chart and my Navionics electronic charts. Since I got the new display and Navionics charts last September they have proven to be much more up to date and accurate than the paper charts.
Isla Guidoro beacon and the rocky shoals behind
and on our starboard side Isla Rua with it's little lighthose.
With a NW 10kn breeze I was able to sail off the anchorage at 14:55 using the Ghosting Genoa. There followed a lovely sail all the way into Cambados-Tragove harbour where I furled the sail and motored 2-300 metres to the berth arriving at 17:50. Pilotage inwards was pretty straight forward but there were some nasty rocks and shoals along the way. The wind increased to 17kn at times, a bit above Ghosting Genoa speed but I left it up anyway.
The pontoons in Cambados-Tragove were designed for Med style mooring with haul-off lines. However, the marina is so little used that the 3 other yachts there were moored fore and aft alongside using haul off lines to stay a metre or so off the pontoons and avoid wash damage from passing fishing boats. I did the same although the haul off lines were heavily encrusted with weed.
I took a quick run ashore but rain threatened and I got back just before the first of several thunder storms passed through.