Shakedown

1^st September 2021

Portimão, Portugal – Culatra, Portugal

A change of style – putting together personal prose is sometimes tough, so let’s be brief and share the main points.  We know you spend more time looking at the pictures anyway! 

• Ruffian gets filled with food thanks to AliceMay’s car.
• We say fond farewells to all our friends in Portimão. 
• We finally leave Portimão after all the shoreside work and check everything works.
• We start watching the weather for a proper trip offshore and it’s not looking good.
• Culatra is as stunning as ever.
• We get an SSB lesson from Cerulean.
• Full of gusto Iain spends the day working with the SSB and kills it.
• Our passage planning spreadsheet is getting out of hand.