22C in January....

And another week rolls by. Hard to believe we're almost done with January, but there we have it.

A pretty quiet (ish) week this week - Alec knocked out the two toggles for our lower rigging, I fitted all the toggles and tightened the entire rig, then we also banged out a couple of sail covers for the new booms. Oh, Alec & I also welded up the eight stainless exhaust elbows to replace the crappy aluminium ones. So quiet, but busy.

We were hoping for a test sail yesterday but the wind never really got going, whereas the swell did. To be honest I'm not sure we'll get any testing done in Nazare (there's just no point heading out to test in 5kts / light winds) - our marina month ends on the 3rd Feb so we're going to try and go for a sail or three this week. Otherwise it might just be a relatively easy motorsail down to Cascais where we'll try and get some testing done out of the Atlantic swell.

 

The weather's holding out nicely for us (22C today!!!) and looks to stay just under the 20C mark this week, so if we're not sailing, there'll be a great chance to do one last tour of Nazare before we get going.