Arrived in Porto Santo (Madeira)

Finally arrived in Porto Santo. The trip was uneventfull bordering to boring ;) I guess sailing to a destination you have been to before, lowers the challenge and the exitement. The weather enroute was mediokre, wind was a little too light and speed had to be increased using motor at times. Normally we sailed best during daytime and the windvane did all the steering. Night time motorsailing. Surprisingly there was a lot of shipping traffic. And we had to give way twice. So sleeping at the helm was not recommended. Although we did sleep - but in short periods. Arriving at Porto Santo we went straight in to the anchorage inside the breakwater. Lots of boats already anchored there. At our first attempt we did'nt find a good holding and drifted to close to another vessel. We then moved to another spot further north and found good holding and good swing-room. Next contacted the marina and sent them our covid vaccine certificates. They need to be authenticated before we are allowed to come ashore. Hopefully we will do so tomorrow. We have cold beer in the fridge and Grete has prepared a nice dinner for tonight, baccalao. No one makes baccalao as good as she do. We plan to spend a month here - and will start stripping our broken down teak deck. Plan is to get that done and apply Kiwi Grip deck paint. We got hold of paint online and it was sent to us at the marina in Cascais. Grete & Geir