welcome back to SAILING JOy last time in getting to lagos you go through a um
a cave that is called cape of piadagi and they have like several cliffs it's very very beautiful
the weather has totally changed it was pretty cold up there in porto and cascais and up in the north
and here in the south already uh going towards gibraltar it's so much warmer
so now we're feeling uh the summer vibes here and we're having a good time with it
so
and we thought there was not going to be any wind uh for us to sail to
portimo not very far as i mentioned but we were able to uh to put our gennaker up
and uh sail along here the coast uh to get to portimo which is located right there
and the wind is shifting a little bit here as we're getting to port but we're gonna try to
stay all the way in uh so we can anchor right there at portimo so pretty day-to-day out we're
gonna anchor now and explore the city a little bit before we set sail tomorrow morning
uh which is gonna be probably a 10 hour sail to our next destination
and some people ask us what is your favorite place in the boat well i think we have many
but during the sunset time our favorite place in the boat is this one because
it's so relaxing it's not cold or hot or anything like that and we get to see the sunset from here
and we had just left for timon we didn't get to see much of the city over there
in puerto mall uh but we did uh get to go to the kotlin and buy some uh
stand-up paddles that we needed and we're going to this place here that seems to be
pretty nice called benegio which is about six nautical miles from here and uh and it puts
you know moves us forward a little bit uh more we're gonna stop there for a little
bit and then we'll go to abu fetta to spend the night before we continue our trip on
so
and this has been a deal that i was telling you guys about unbelievable we went over
there like for a dingy ride and uh we were amazed probably one of the most beautiful
places i have ever been in my life really really beautiful so if you are in the coast of portugal
don't miss out stop here have a look because it's so beautiful
so you're ready for us to go to the next destination did you like benagil
and we are living here culatra in uh oleons i'm sorry speaking portuguese english all those same
here but we're going towards uh guatiana which is the last board in portugal before we get to spain
uh why are we doing this again i uh i i think i've mentioned to you guys but what we're doing
is we're trying to do day sales here because there's a lot of orca attacks that have been
registered in this coast all the way to gibraltar and we we don't want to go uh out in the sea more
than 12 nautical miles where all of the attacks have been registered so we've been doing like very
uh minimal day sailing about five hours a day 30 miles a day
and slowly we progress towards gibraltar so we're excited to have another motor sail today
because there's not a lot of wind but at least there's not a lot of waves uh as well so it's just
gonna be like uh enjoying the day out and getting to a new port and progressing towards gibraltar
and just like that we left portugal and we're entering uh spain and every time
that we leave one country and we uh get into the other country we have to change our flags
and that's what we're gonna be doing right now uh today's uh again a smooth
day of sailing as you guys can see we're moving along at four knots winds at seven
i had the the big uh sail up but it didn't work very well because the angle of the wind is not
uh pretty good for that sail right now so we're just going with our genoa and our
cruising longer four knots gonna take a little longer to get to our next destination in spain
yes and there's no wind whatsoever today but we decided to go anyway because there's no waves
nothing and we can go very close to the coast avoiding the whales by the way i don't know if you
guys have heard about the killer whale attacks here in the gulf of cadiz all the way to gibraltar
so that's something that a lot of sailors are avoiding is to go right off the coast
over uh nine miles more or less there's an exclusion zone that they have created
in the coast of spain that you cannot sail uh until i believe september now because of the so
many attacks that have been reported it has been over 150 damaged boats so far uh this year so
they're trying to minimize uh the interaction between the uh the the orcas and the boats that
uh go to gibraltar and come from gibraltar so we're we decided to go very close to the coast
uh do like day sales only and we're trying to choose days there there's not a lot of wind
not a lot of wave waves so we uh we're 100 in control sorry 100 in control it's impossible
to be because i mean the whales that's their home they can appear here at any time so uh that's what
we're doing now we're sailing all day long today to cadiz which is probably going to be our last
leg before we try to go all the way to gibraltar we may stop in barbate just to cut the trip in
half instead of doing like 16 hours we may do like seven hours and then eight hours to uh
to gibraltar more or less uh if we do that but uh well today is going to be
a motoring day we're going to enjoy the day and we're going to be moving towards gibraltar
weee
and we are here right in the middle of our crossing and we have received like several
messages from the spanish coast guard there are three people
on the water very close to us here so we're on the lookout to see if we see anything
there's a big rescue operation uh happening here this happened last night
so during uh they're hoping to find uh the people so we're here on the lookout uh to see
if we find anything so there are like several uh ships around trying uh this rescue mission
to this fisherman that have all the in the water so let's see uh if we see anything on the water
it's five o'clock in the morning we are here in cadiz and uh we're gonna go to gibraltar today
uh this one is the one that we're very tense about because of the orc attacks that we have heard uh
from several boats we have done a little research just this year uh 150 boats have been attacked
i'm going to go to channel 7 2 now because the guard calls just sent a message saying that there
is a boat in distress in front of us uh they have been attacked by the orcas so uh i'm gonna listen
here what is uh going on if you follow our advice but that and much more we'll show you next week