Tuesday 21st October
Not wanting to be trapped in Porto Santo due to the approaching (next 24hours) bad weather, we (Daniel, Maetias and I) left for Madeira at 0900am. With very little wind for the first few hours our progress was pretty slow and I decided to try some fishing. I immediately caught a good size fish which looked like a really big and fat Mackerel or very small Tuna!
It wasn't the brightest idea to leave the fish dangling in the water while I sorted out a bucket, after all who wants fish blood over their teak! This one lived to fight another day.
The wind filled in to a healthy 10kn and Daniel and I soon took off leaving Maetias a spot on the horizon. It was a pleasant if not boring sail and we arrived at Quinta Do Lorde marina by 1800pm with Willem lending a helpful hand with the lines. Maetias arrived some hours later and we went to the restaurant to get an easy bite to eat. Just before calling it a day the wind started to build as the promised bad weather arrived. With gusts to 35kn I had to adjust the lines to stop the bows hitting the pontoon due to rope stretch and then later in the middle of the night go on deck to double the lines for fear of them snapping!
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