We’ve now been in Portimao for a week and are more or less ready to go. As I write, we are getting the watermaker ready. It didn’t start up last time, but it’s probably just a set up issue. After that, we are ready. Ideally we would leave at once, but we really need the wind to be blowing in the right direction. The bad news is that the wind is all over the place. There was a window a week away, but that has now firmly shut. I must admit it is very frustrating. I am not well adapted to waiting.The good news is that the winds are constantly changing. This means it’s entirely possible we just up and leave with very little notice at all. In the meantime, we will be training and waiting. The wind may be messed up, but at least the sun is out.

Tight fit

In the event of a storm or very bad weather, three of us will be confined to the aft cabin. We tested it out the other day and found it to be a bit of a tight fit. But if we are lucky, this should not happen too often. Sometimes I will be in the cabin alone, other times it will be two of us sharing it. This happens on our downtime, which we don’t have huge amounts of. Having said that, right now I would prefer any sort of tight fit than this horrendous waiting.