








ARC Portugal leg 4: Figueira da Foz to Nazare. Luckily a very short leg at about 33nm and there was no wind at all. The boats all lined up at the start ready to shove throttles forward. In fact we did sail slowly for the last hour and a half. Nazare is a pretty town, narrow streets, red tiled roofs, blue tiles on walls and cream tiles underfoot, as is typical in Portugal. Half the town is up on top of the cliff and the Ascenseur wasn’t working. Easy enough to run up the path though and visit the site of the “biggest surf waves in the world “ – in the season anyway, which is not now. The Clube Navale made us welcome in their marina.