Corme to Camariñas
04/May/2007 13:43 Filed in: Galicia
No great hurry to leave today. I've noticed that the mornings are relatively calm and is often well after lunch before the wind blows in any strength.
We cleared Corme harbour at 11:40 and proceeded under motor and main. The sea is again almost calm with a NW swell. It is also very hazy though not foggy. At 13:30 the wind has started to blow from the north so I turn the engine off. Our speed drops to 2.7 knots under main alone but when the yankee was deployed we were doing 4.2 knots. Steering is handed over to Dame Kiri (our Aries windvane) and we then sail all the way into Camariñas harbour.
This is the coast I toured in November. We sailed past the tiny port of Puerta Marina, barely visible from the sea in amongst the rocky approaches. Then we were off the shoals where the "HMS Serpent" was wrecked. A truly awesome coast.
We passed Cabo Villano lighthouse, built in 1896 and the first in Spain to use electricity, at 14:30.
The wind increased once we got round Cabo Villano and we sailed towards the Ria Camariñas entrance at over 5 knots.
A church on Punta de la Barca on the south side of the entrance.
At 16:00 when we dropped the sails a northerly wind was blowing down the Ria at over 20k. We moored on the centre pontoon at Club Nautico do Camariñas.
We cleared Corme harbour at 11:40 and proceeded under motor and main. The sea is again almost calm with a NW swell. It is also very hazy though not foggy. At 13:30 the wind has started to blow from the north so I turn the engine off. Our speed drops to 2.7 knots under main alone but when the yankee was deployed we were doing 4.2 knots. Steering is handed over to Dame Kiri (our Aries windvane) and we then sail all the way into Camariñas harbour.
This is the coast I toured in November. We sailed past the tiny port of Puerta Marina, barely visible from the sea in amongst the rocky approaches. Then we were off the shoals where the "HMS Serpent" was wrecked. A truly awesome coast.
We passed Cabo Villano lighthouse, built in 1896 and the first in Spain to use electricity, at 14:30.
The wind increased once we got round Cabo Villano and we sailed towards the Ria Camariñas entrance at over 5 knots.
A church on Punta de la Barca on the south side of the entrance.
At 16:00 when we dropped the sails a northerly wind was blowing down the Ria at over 20k. We moored on the centre pontoon at Club Nautico do Camariñas.