We have no photos from the night. It was freshening up to 40kts, which is a lot for us.
Here are some photos from early morning. We are still 20nm from the coast.
“Water” is boatspeed through water and was constantly hitting 10kt in pitch dark night. Was a wet ride on the outside steering stand.
Anything you touch is heavily salted.
We are lucky to sail to the west of a strong Mistral blowing south in the Golf de Lion.
Anchor up at 6:00 in the dark and maneuvering out of the anchorage. Radar assisted nicely to go around unlit boats in the anchorage.
with Campari O-Juice to fight scurvy in paradise.
Recipe of the Admiral
Anchoring for the night in Portinatx, Ibiza. Lunara is painting a nice doodle on the anchor watch system.
Portinatx, Ibiza.
It’s so nice, when you come back from an evening swim, to find a glass of Rose ready by my dear Admiral.
Waiter pouring Sangria with Lunara anchored in the bay behind.
While checking out a Marina on the west side of Ibiza, I used Google Chrome to instantaneously translate the website. Google’s translation is typically quite good. But today it’s just funny. Can you spot the special service?
30 hour sail with variable to excellent winds. One Thunderstorm at night which we detoured around its southern rim.
Anchoring for the first time was troublesome related to issues with the windlass. We abandoned the maneuver and sorted out the technical trouble. About our second attempt we have this beautiful doodle Lunara generated on the chartplotter – see photo. Diving to the anchor showed it wedged in a rock crevesse in 5meters with the chain wrapped around a bolder 🙁
We were lucky to get our gear up in one piece. Finally, 3 hours later, we got the anchor down properly and relaxed withsome bubbly drink.
This morning we woke up to a sizable thunderstorm front moving through the anchorage.
We plan to stay here for the next two days and relax.
Martin
