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Spain – Portugal – Spain – France onboard Cecienne

In the last ten days we’ve voyaged from Gibraltar to mid France.

The pictures tell their own story – amazing ports and harbours, with some long days at sea, and Fionn got the drone flying at last! We also had an interesting midnight encounter when we were boarded by Spanish customs.

Until now there was only one day we couldn’t make some progress, when 3 metre waves sent us scuttling back to harbour, but our luck seems to have run out. We are now storm-bound in Royan, and the next few days forecast is looking grim.

This is just a small selection of images from the latest stage of the trip…

May 1, 2015

Cecienne

Cecienne reaches mainland Spain

We’ve been at sea a week now after leaving Palma, and already had many adventures, encountering fickle Mediterranean weather including the thickest of fog. We also had an amazing encounter with a pod of pilot whales in the Straits of Gibraltar.

There are only two things to do when passing through Gibraltar. Go up the rock to meet the apes – and head across to Morocco!

Had to be able to say we’d taken the boat to Africa! Only problem was that Santiago has a Uruguayan passport and needed a visa so he wasn’t allowed off the boat…

With Fionn flying back to UK for a few days it was a skeleton crew of John, Mark and Santiago heading out into the Atlantic tomorrow to tackle the Portuguese coast.

April 24, 2015

Cecienne

Balearic bound

We have arrived in the Balearic Islands to pick up John’s new boat Cecienne. There is a full crew with Fionn, Rosie, Mark and Santiago. The plan is to bring it back to Cornwall by sea, heading through the Mediterranean, Straits of Gibraltar, and then along the Atlantic coast of Portugal, Spain and France.