Oct, 10th, on our way to Portugal …

We had a lovely night in the Baiona bay. No wind, clear sky with moon and stars and a beautiful sunset. The barbeque was delicious :-)

Next morning we got up at 7am. The weather is great but there's not much wind, about 5kts S/SW

It's supposed to veer to W/NW but not to increase much.

Since Spain is one hour ahead of EST we had a really nice view of the sun rising at our stern while we motored out of the bay.

At around 09:00 UTC we crossed the border and changed the courtesy flag:-) We were welcomed by 15 kts of wind and a pack of dolphins that came playing at our bow.

We had all sails out including the stay sail and did 8 kts over ground :-)

That didn't last long though. After an hour or so the wind dropped to 3 kts and we motor sailed for a while. Then the wind picked up a bit but from the East... it was a broad to beam reach so we set the genaker. By the time we had it set, the wind had backed to North-West so we set it on the pole. That didn't last too long either.... and we were back to motor sailing.

A few hours later we could sail again with the spinnaker this time. This time the wind stayed steady for about 3 hours. It wasn't much but enough to enjoy a lovely afternoon sail,

After 73.6 nm and 13 ½ hrs we arrived in Leixoes and moored up, finding the office to open tomorrow morning at 8 am :-)