ARC Portugal Leg 5 Nazare to Oeiras

ARC Portugal Leg 5: Nazare to Oeiras (pronounced Where ash). It was Steve’s birthday so he got tea in bed and card and present early to be in time for the start. It was a gate start and the yellow shirts sang Happy Birthday as we motored between the breakwaters. No wind again, but it came after a couple of hours do we were able to sail gently on a reach close to Fisk see pic. Came onto a slow run wing and wing as we passed Peniche, ETA was after 2200 then more wind had us bowling along merrily with dolphins in attendance. Even more wind (though we were pre warned by those ahead via the WhatsApp group) had us heavily reefed for the sail along the outer reaches of the river Tagus (or Tejo in Portuguese) to the finish at Oeiras. Conditions were rather lively for berthing in the marina which seemed to be short of space – we were sent to a strange berth well away from the other ARC yachts among small local boats. Others were put on the fuel pontoon. Luckily they found us a proper place later and we moved in the morning, just time to receive a delivery of fresh bread rolls with our boat name on the bag – we all got this every morning of our stay there.

Dolphins came to play

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