Good Morning everybody and welcome to a new travel update 🙂 These last few weeks have seen quite a few important landmarks of the journey and also exploring new aspects of it, so let’s tell you all about it!
We got reminded during this trip that not everybody knows that sailboats can actually sail against the wind. Although it has become self-evident to us, when thinking back on it, we can’t deny that it’s truly a great mechanical feat of the design of sailboats. But this ability does not come without drawbacks: when going upwind, you will have to travel longer distances than the direct route, the sails are less efficient at pushing you forward and you will most of the time be moving against the waves. All in all, it’s considered that traveling a given distance takes 2 to 3 times longer upwind than downwind. This little information has been very relevant to us these last few days as we have had to travel hundreds of kilometers upwind…
Although we had planned to stay in Faro a couple more days to rest from our latest trip, we had to leave earlier as the weather forecasts worsened and made our initial plans impractical. As it happened way too often during this journey, we went, in the course of 30 minutes, from thinking that we had 2 days of resting ahead of us to deciding to leave in the next 2 hours. Because of this, we also missed an opportunity to meet with a colleague of Louis who was on vacation just a few kilometers away 😦 Nevertheless, we reached during this sailing trip an important landmark: the point furthest away from our starting place, by going around the southwest tip of Portugal! As usual, we enjoyed a stop near a small town offering beautiful sightseeing and climbing spots, before heading to Lisbon in a crazily intense 10 hours sail (who knew the entrance of such a city could have such a rough local weather O_O)…
During this time, we also started a sad, but nevertheless interesting, part of the trip: selling Misty Sea. You might have seen the new blog section we dedicated to it 😉 What lifted our spirit though was the unexpected popularity Misty Sea received! We always knew she would be a Casanova :p
Our next appointment is now with 3 friends from Munich, which we hope to meet in Aveiro next Monday. For this, we will have to move 250km further North and thus plan another 48h of intense Sailing upwind… We cross our fingers for the winds to be favorable!
Sailing Misty 