welcome back to sailing joy last time we arrived in la creunia and
went to explore the surroundings we visited santiago de compostela
before we set sail to vigo where we slept at a very nice anchorage
as we arrived in vigo we decided to set anchor at a bay very close to the city the first spot
that we selected was too windy so we decided to move down the bay closer to the beach where we
could avoid the wind some people say that life in the ocean is full of challenges and issues
but isn't that like in our real world
as we brought the chain up the shackle got stuck and bent and we could not remove the
shackle from the anchor and using the driller made our job so much easier
yay
fast next morning we woke up and did a quick sail across the bay to the city of vigo and we stayed
at real clubio vigo that was located right in town vigo is a city known for its history restaurants
and very nice people so he had a very good stay over here but before we started touring around
i decided to check the fix of our halyard if it had shaped again or not it looked pretty good
and today what we're gonna do is we're gonna grab the dinghy and we're gonna go up in the ria here
in vigo under the bridge that crosses over there that goes to portugal to explore a little bit
farther it is interesting that whenever you're in a boat like this one your dinghy becomes your car
so we're going to be exploring and we're going to do the tourist thing on the dinghy today
yesterday we came into this channel with joy and i'm still getting used to the size of the
the vessel and everything else and i was i thought was kind of tight uh but everything
worked out well and we were able to to put in our slip check it out see how how tight it is
oh
well and we have left viggo about uh i don't know two hours ago there's not a whole lot of wind we
were able to sail a little bit and we decided to come to a place that is called biona we have
heard that is beautiful it's a small town that is going to be uh actually our first night that we're
going to sleep here on anchorage before going to porto we were going to puerto directly but we
decided to stop in the middle of the way uh also to uh sleep another night so we're doing like day
sailing instead of like doing any uh overnights uh i think it's uh that way we can really enjoy
the day have fun while we're doing it so we're almost there we're going to be anchoring uh
right in front of the castle here in baona so we're about like a mile from there maybe like uh
i don't know maybe 15 20 more minutes so we're to be anchoring and we are here in bayona and
this city is stunning it's so beautiful and we are here like in a day that is uh very warm
so everybody decided to go to the beach today's ride in front of us here check it out
so
and today we're here in bayonna we're going to be leaving uh to go to porto uh we believe it's
going to be a 13 to a 13 hour sale to porto and uh it's about six o'clock in the morning still dark
and uh we're gonna be leaving pretty early so we can get with a daylight over there in porto so
it's gonna be a all day sale and we decided not to uh continue on to cascais and stop in porto
to check it out and visit and get to see the city a little bit so we're excited about
the sale and in 12 to 14 hours we're we're gonna be there why do i lose all my control
we just entered portugal uh we were not very far uh over there in bayonna this little city that we
spent two nights at anchorage it's about i don't know uh three hours uh motoring from bayonna to
enter portugal so it just entered portugal i think we're gonna sail for maybe nine to
ten more hours and we're gonna be arriving in porto and we'll arrive at 10 o'clock at night
but uh here in europe uh you know it's still day so we're not gonna have any issues whenever we
arrive there we have not decided yet if we're going to be going to the marina directly or
spend the night at anchorage and the next day we'll go to the marina over there so we can get
out of joy get to see the city a little bit and uh and enjoy porto and it's time to switch flags so
we're gonna go over there switch the spanish flag to the portuguese flags as we just enter portugal
and the other night that we were coming from um
actually were going to vigo we heard on the radio a distressed signal
of a sailboat that got uh their propellers uh caught on uh fishing at and now we're looking here
at the coast of portugal if you're like sailing too close to the coast i mean there are so many
uh fishing nets and we're going by them like one by one there's one right here check it out
this is
and after almost uh 10 hours uh today we we're almost in porto so we're gonna be arriving there
probably around seven to eight o'clock at night and i decided to relax here at the the school
uh it's very calm day so you can do this and just like relax and watch the ocean and one thing that
i highly recommend if you're gonna get your boat in los ables or anywhere over there near
bayo biscay is stop in galicia stop over there in the northern part of spain and here in portugal
because it's so beautiful last time around i was kind of scared to stop here because of the weather
and everything else but there's so many uh beautiful places to stop uh and anchor your
boat so take the time instead of like going to the man you know straight from getting your new boat
i don't know uh we're really having a good time and really enjoying getting to see those cities
that sometimes you only do by car and there's a you know a very good option to do by boat as well
and i stopped at the the anchorages see the beaches you know and the towns that are all
around here in northern spain it's uh it's pretty cool and i highly recommend it and do you see
that buoy over there yeah it just went through joy right in the middle it didn't get kept didn't get
caught or anything but uh he did go through let's see if he did scratch the hole underneath the boat
next time on sailing joint we explore porto before heading out to sea again and this time it's just
gonna be me and patricia will enjoy we're gonna be sailing along the coast of portugal towards kaskas
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