10.10 Sail off anchor -under genoa.
10.20 Engine on. Engine reluctant to fire up on 2nd cylinder.
10.45
Engine off, sailing, full genoa.
Lovely run down to Finisterre in 18kts gusting 23, then went inshore to have a good look at Europe’s most Westerly point and ran out of wind.
14.10
Engine on.
14.50
Round Finisterre.
12.5nm to entrance to Ria Muros. As we were a fair way out to see I decided to clean our oily bilge sump, so mixed up a generous portion of dishwashing liquid and water, poured it in and left it for a while. The bilge pump blew a fuse (again) though, so I had to sponge it all out😒
17. 30
Approaching Ensenada de San Francisco, we were intercepted by an Aduanas (customs) boat with masked crew who made hand signals – think they were asking if we were going to anchor in the bay, but they may have been asking if we were going into the marina. All seemed amicable, if a bit weird.
18.15
Anchored off the NE corner of the bay. Wind not as advertised so hanging into the beach. Knox took a wee while to set, but eventually held on substantial astern revs.
(NB – engine not going into astern until you move the lever enough to start opening the throttle, then there is a clunk… Needs the new morse control fitted sometime fairly soonish…)
18.45
Customs boat comes back and asks to see papers. Much palaver as they get the boat close enough to hand over papers in a waterproof bag. Papers duly handed back, a signature from me and a copy of some piece of paper. Slightly nerve-wracking having a stonking great steel mobo hovering three feet away.
19.30
Chicken (bought two days ago) is stinking and goes to feed the fish. Change of dinner plans, Catherine is making an omelette with tatties, cibies, cheese, tomatoes and chorizo.
(It was delicious)