The crossing and beyond

After careful check of weather reports we left Kinsale, Ireland on Sunday noon 22nd August, expecting NW decreasing Monday and a blow on Tuesday afternoon decreasing overnight, winds all in the right direction to give us a good sail South to Porto ETA Friday, 27th August.

The seas were very short steep waves and by 8pm the wind was coming from the SW and increasing force 5 this continued until Tuesday pm when the wind picked up to a force 8 SW with a 4 metre swell from the North, (the sick making seas!) and then settled to F7, big confused seas not nice! Change of destination to North Spain, Corina being the nearest land fall. I lasted until Wednesday 7.00am then when I went below to put on dry clothes that was the end of me! I kept getting up to throw Chris a bottle of water and a few snacks but he was on his own for all of Wednesday (Gail and Midge were out of it from Monday) I re-emerged Wednesday pm, the winds had eased and we sailed into Corina at 09.00 Thursday morning. The day was spent drying out Quicksilver and then ourselves, apart from having taken some huge waves over the boat we had no damage just a lot of wet. Biscay lived up to its name and more.