Today the weather forecast was promising a nice sailing day. The target for today was Barbate which is the only safe harbour between Cadiz and Gibraltar. We spent about one hour washing the dirt off the boat which was blown into the marina from a close by construction site. Everything was full of dirt and sand. We finally left Cadiz at about 10:00 local time. It was blowing more than forecasted outside and the provisionally taken in second reef proved to be a good idea. We tacked for 8 hours in a SE F6 and decided to turn on the engine at 18:00 in order to arrive at the harbour before the night. The last 3 hours we spent motoring against a SE F6 levanter and big seas and carefully looking for tuna fish nets. We safely arrived in Barbate Marina at 21:20.
Tomorrow’s target is Gibraltar which is also the end of the third leg of the voyage.
