41°22.3'N 008°45.9 W Tuesday 8th September Povoa do VarzimAnother good sail, a few miles down the coast, keeping a lookout for the world's first ever trial wave turbine sausage - wave energy project. The cable for this apparently extends about 3 miles to seaward from a point on the coast about 5 miles north of Povoa (pronounced pawvwah). It had cardinal marks and yellow buoys to alert shipping - we went as close as we could but couldn't see anything. R thin...

Portugal! Viana do Castelo Sunday, 6th SeptemberNice sail down, goosewinging most of the way with prevented mainsail and poled out genoa. For the non sailors, that is one sail on one side and the other sail the other side, with poles and lines to stop them flopping or accidentally winging across to the other side.What a place! First of all Portugal is very different, even though we are only about 15 miles from Spain. And the language is completely different, m...