No more Muros

So when we came around the corner of Spain, having crossed the Bay of Biscay, we realised that the storm’s path afforded us an opportunity to head further south and avoid being Stormbound in A Coruña.

We sailed past, and headed down to Muros, a quaint old fishing town where we felt we would be better off if we were locked in by the storm.

When we arrived though we were met by Tomi, the owner of a Malo yacht, very similar to Carioca, built in the same region in Sweden and of a similar length. He has been in Muros for three weeks, having been attacked by an Orca 1 mile offshore around cape Finisterre, where we had travelled that morning. Yesterday there was another attack, 5 miles off shore near Muros, so it brought it really close to home, what a lottery it is. Tomi anticipates a 3 to 4 week wait for a new rudder to be manufactured and delivered.

We had a lovely meal in the local restaurant. Richard had turbot, and the rest of us had a mixed grill plate, which was lovely. We had a little too much liquid with the meal and afterwards in the cockpit sharing our music!

But as we feared, the weather turned

We sat out the storm yesterday, with some very high winds in the marina, even though we were in the shelter of a very big hill, significant rains and then last night, we shared with you, the thunder and lightning.

Some of the sights, taken when we went for a ride in a break in the rain!

Having thought we would be stormbound again, the weather turned and the low pressure moved further north more quickly than expected. So we scooted at 12:00

And so we’re off to Isla de Arousa in the Ria of the same name. The largest of the Galician Rias with many pleasant anchorages and some challenging pilotage.