Cascais – Lisbon
4.6 degrees Celsius outside temperature at half-past seven. We cast off for Cascais, 67 miles further south. We didn’t care…
Sailing Long Distances
Nazaré
Perfect! I can’t think of a word better for the journey to Nazaré; blue sky, a northeasterly wind, almost no…
Figueira da Foz and Coimbra
It was one of those rare sunny days late November when we left Duoro Marina. The disc of the sun…
Repair stories – bad luck, failures, and malfunctions
Planed was a five-day stay in Porto, in the end, it were 27. Yes, slightly miscalculated, mainly because of the…
Porto – Bridges, wine, a bookstore, and night shots
November 2019 A ferry boat took us on the other side of the river Douro where we got on board…
Póvoa, sailing to Manhattan
Over the last two decades a lot of improvements for the sailing folks have been made, like new marinas, increased…