Join us this week on Sailing Nendaz as we sail from Vilamoura, Portugal to Tangier, Morocco. We sail to Africa!
Because of some strict red tape around exporting/ importing dogs from Portugal to Morocco our weather window was very compromised. We were also in a bit of a rush to try and get to Morocco for Christmas too where we had friends waiting (Sailing Saffron) in the marina, and other friends flying out from England to join us.
We had a health certificate, only valid for 3 days which allowed us to import Walter into Morocco. We had already used one day up in getting the certificate, and the weather was no good. So this meant we had 2 days to get to Morocco, so we decided to sail it in a single 24 hour sail, 145 nautical miles.
About 1-2 hours into the passage our autopilot failed, the plastic gears had worn down to nothing. So it meant we either turnaround, and then we would need to arrange a new health certificate for Walter, and miss our Christmas plans in Morocco, and further overstay our Schengen visa. Or we continue on and just hand steer on shift patterns. We opted to continue on with the help of my (Joe's) cousin Sam.
We faced a pretty rough sea state, with big waves in the 3-4 metre range. A proper washing machine of waves mixed in from different directions. We nearly experience a full knock down.
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Негізгі бет E31 We SAIL to AFRICA, autopilot FAILURE, big waves KNOCK DOWNS
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