We should be in Porto Santo Marina in a couple of hours.
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| Porto Santo - land ahoi ! |
This has so far been our longest crossing. Weather has been very nice, a bit too nice as we have had to motorsail much of the time. We have been supplied by weatherforecast by Geir's radio friend Leif/LA3ZH via Winlink/Pactor on the HF radio.
Beeing a low traffic area it has been possible to risk longer sleeping periods between lookouts.
Radar and AIS makes it possible to spot other vessels. The water is too deep for fisheries.
But we were paid a visit by these guys:
We were a bit concerned that no officials asked our next port of call or dep/arr times.
We tried to call Portugese radio stations or coastguard on VHF while we were withing range, but got no reply.
We ended up phoneing MRCC Lisboa who gladly registred our sail plan and we agreed we'd call them back then arriving at Porto Santo.
When we were within cellphone range from PS - Sunday morning they had already tried to phone us Twice.
Phoned them back and thanked them for their vigilancy and concern.
Grete has served very nice dinners on the way. Twice Indian caserolle and Saturday we had this nice pasta bolognaise.
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| Home made Bolognaise and a small glass of red ;) |
4 comments:
Sorry to hear about your experience with the Portugese Coastal radiostations and Coast Guard regarding the use of Maritime VHF, this is definitely not the way this should work.
Maybe an idea to check with MRCC Lisbon to hear if they have any suggestions to you, besiden using cellphone also for the other authorities? :)
Your dinner looks well prepared Geir, hi. You definitely have a first mate onboard who knows more than "just" weighing anchor and putting out fenders, hi hi.
Hello Geir. Any specific time you are on the radio? If so, I will try to listen for you. But not before 20. october, I will be visiting The Orkneys and Highland Park (and some other distilleries) the next weekend, leaving from here tomorrow. Have a safe trip. 73 de Olav, LA9VFA
I have to get a SIM card for our Iridium phone. That will give me a solid alternative.
We are in port in Porto Santo and radio condx from here is poor. Will be here for the next 2 week. Enjoy Scotland and their golden fluids.
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