Andalucía

We are still in Andalusia, south Spain. We had some trouble, kind of an accident, when we wanted to leave Sancti Petri, where we had spent some nice days together with Ika and Fred.

Actually we were very close to loosing the ship on a somewhat stony sandbank in the heavily breaking swell just outside the beach. We had left the harbour a bit upstream in low winds and obviously still too much current, which carried us on the sandbank south of the mouth of the river.

But we were lucky! After 1,5 hours of ancious holding fast to the boat beeing casted around, waiting and working we got out on deep water with comparatively small damages. Yesterday we bougth a new understay in Gibraltar and now we are ready to continue south towards Morocco with a boat totally restored, checked from the tip of the mast to the toe of the keel.

It is getting cold here, especially at night, so we are heading south with a good weatherforecast.