Hello from LISBON!
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Fri 7 Oct 2005 23:24
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This is a picture of Mimi
running around a brilliant children controlled water fountain in a playground in
Fig Foz.
 There have been horrible
fires throughout Portugal, and the boat has been filled with ash, and we have
seen lots of smoke. Leaving the harbour was prevented by the harbour
master whilst planes filled their water tanks in the calm water of the river,
whilst still flying.
 Hello All, we are 100 miles
further south, in Cascais,which is just out of Lisbon, and it has suddenly
got hot again. Must keep going south!! The last week further up the coast
was cold and foggy, we finally followed African Queen out of Figueira Da
Foz,(Foggyarea Da Fog), and broke free, we hope forever, of fog. Chris
kept rushing up from the radar shouting, 'There's something off the
starboard bow!' and it was a fishing pot flag. These occur in dense
packs between zero and fifty metres depth, and some are camoflagued,(cereal box
sized white polystyrene blocks, or with blue flags).
Not having done a passage
since Biscay, we are now getting all keen, and are having esoteric conversations
along the line of,'Shall we go to Madeira and then the Gambia, or to the Algarve
and then Morocco..??'. It's all a bit of a mystery to us at the
moment. Should the next passage be horrible, I am threatening to
stay in the Canaries all winter and learn Spanish,(whilst updating web-site with
fantasy photos of the Caribbean and appropriate tales).
Chris says:
'The last hour into Cascais
was accompanied by a sudden doubling in the windspeed, Sarah Grace storming
ahead at a steady seven plus knots'
Sophy says: 'Chris
was cackling with manic laughter as he increased his lead over a chasing
yacht with a spinnaker'.
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