Two nights in the marina
Category: Baleares 2022
2022 Garrucha Marina to El Portus Anchorage
We decided to wait until after the weekend to go into Cartagena. We need to get new oars and reglue the oar holders. During the day we took off the carburator on the dinghy motor. Gasoline from last season had clogged it. From now on we will switch of the motor by closing the fuel.
Cabo da Gata to Garrucha Marina
We motored and motorsailed on the genua all day. The marina was very nice and at 28€ it was also affordable. We filled diesel, water and went shopping.
Cabo da Gata on anchor
We anchored two days in hard winds. It was a good plan because it would have been very hard to go around the cape. We have a Danforth anchor that works extremely well in sand and light grass. For hard surfaces it is not so good. We vere hanging on in windgusts over 35 knots.
At wone time the wind flipped the dinghy over, and the oars unfortunatly floaed away.
Almerimar – Cabo da Gata
Our goal this summer is the Baleares. The wind is normally against, or very weak so we decided to go by motor to Cabo da Gata and anchor and wait for weak winds, to be able to round this notorious cape.
Hard start of the Baleares sail
The season started with Covid. Finally after 2 years of hiding i got to me too. The plan was to visit friends i Almeria a couple of nights and then finally arrive in Almeriamar to start the season.