To Rio Guadiana

We had a lovely staY in Horta. That is a place I would like to visit again.

Now I am sailing towards the Rio Guadiana, the southern border between where I will meet up with Clemencia.

We have rented a tiny apartment in the centre of Sevilla.

I will have a week there before returning to work in Sweden and then commuting between Tidaholm and Sevilla.

Sailing single handed in light winds and smooth seas.

We saw a rocket launch

This is what we saw moving across the sky South East of Bermuda on the night of 4 June. It was a falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. One of the strangest things I have seen in the sky.

https://goo.gl/images/DnSJ1Y

Horta

Balaena arrived safely at 2330. All well after a wonderful trip.

Fast sail

Land in sight. Sailing fast. Arrive late tonight.

Almost there

Nor we are on our final days. The weather is calm and sunny with just enough wind to keep sailing. We have two days to go to arrive at the finish of the rally in which we are participating. There are about 50 boats and they want as many as possible to arrive at the same time- midday Monday. We will see if we can oblige. It will probably be chaos but fun.
Then there are 5 days of tours dinners and social activities for the rally. We also have some other yacht friends in port so it will be a social time. Don't expect to hear much from us!
Despite the calm or perhaps because of it we are seeing lots of dolphins and a few whales. As well as cooking bread, scones and tasty meals we are relaxing and reading and enjoying the easy life.

Gentle sailing

Not long to go. Light wind and gentle sailing

Lighter wind

The wind is dropping a little but we are still sailing nicely. Several visits today from dolphins.

A bit more wind

Wind about 25 knots and sailing up to 8 knots. Very good progress and all well on board

No fish

It is so smooth and steady that the biggest news today is that we still haven't caught a fish!

Cheese scones

Very comfortable aboard with smooth sailing. Ethan made yummy cheese scones for lunch. Dolphin escort.

Halfway

We passed the halfway mark last night. The wind is still light but the sea is so smooth that we are sailing well. So smooth that it almost feels as though we are at anchor.

Calm

Still very little wind, though we had a few hours nice sailing today.

Getting much cooler now at night, which is quite a relief.

Calms

We have been making good progress but now have a few days of calms. We motor whenever the speed drops too much.

There are other boats in the rally in our area so we don't feel alone.

Unfortunately we have not caught any fish but we still have some delicious steak from Colombia for dinner tonight.

Fair wind

We have sailed past the calm and now the wind is slowly picking up from South West. From here on the prevailing wind should be west. We are sailing slowly at present but hope to pick up in the next few days.

It is getting cooler, I even need a tee-shirt at night!

Calm

Today it has been calm. We have motored all day. This evening it looks as though we may have a little wind and be able to motorsail.

We had a refreshing swim in crystal clear, deep blue water.