Portosin
13/May/2007 16:02 Filed in: Ria de Muros
When we arrived here on Wednesday I thought we would be moving on after two days at the most.
The next leg involves sailing out of the Ria Muros, down the coast a bit then into the Ria de Arosa which can be accessed north or south of Isla de Salvora the former being a more challenging pilotage. On thursday and friday the wind was SW F4-5, pretty well bang on the nose not very pleasant and not ideal conditions for attempting the northern passage. I waited.
On saturday morning I was very tempted to leave. The wind was around force SW 3 but all the forecasts indicated that it would increase up to F6 during the day. I recently subscribed to a free trial at the weather service Theyr. They were forecasting SW F7.
I decided to wait and went into Noia for lunch and to top up on supplies. The weather seemed lovely and I regretting not having sailed. Browsing through El Pais over lunch I noticed that Van Morrison was playing in Santiago de Compostela.
Back at the boat on Saturday evening I emailed for a ticket to see Van. Later the wind started to increase dramatically. I woke at around 01:00. The boat was moving listing to port and the wind noise was much louder. My wind meter read slightly above 30 knots which is not far from F8. Theyr were right and I was glad I was not sitting on an exposed berth in the Ria de Arosa or worse still trying to reach one.
This morning (Sunday) the wind was still very strong but it moderated during the afternoon and the forecast for tomorrow is NW F4 which sounds just fine. We should be away tomorrow.
The next leg involves sailing out of the Ria Muros, down the coast a bit then into the Ria de Arosa which can be accessed north or south of Isla de Salvora the former being a more challenging pilotage. On thursday and friday the wind was SW F4-5, pretty well bang on the nose not very pleasant and not ideal conditions for attempting the northern passage. I waited.
On saturday morning I was very tempted to leave. The wind was around force SW 3 but all the forecasts indicated that it would increase up to F6 during the day. I recently subscribed to a free trial at the weather service Theyr. They were forecasting SW F7.
I decided to wait and went into Noia for lunch and to top up on supplies. The weather seemed lovely and I regretting not having sailed. Browsing through El Pais over lunch I noticed that Van Morrison was playing in Santiago de Compostela.
Back at the boat on Saturday evening I emailed for a ticket to see Van. Later the wind started to increase dramatically. I woke at around 01:00. The boat was moving listing to port and the wind noise was much louder. My wind meter read slightly above 30 knots which is not far from F8. Theyr were right and I was glad I was not sitting on an exposed berth in the Ria de Arosa or worse still trying to reach one.
This morning (Sunday) the wind was still very strong but it moderated during the afternoon and the forecast for tomorrow is NW F4 which sounds just fine. We should be away tomorrow.