Surf's Up!

So today we took a day off boat work and headed up to northern Nazare to watch the swell roll in. Nazare's known for it's BIG winter swell courtesy of the undersea canyon and today didn't disappoint.

The view was excellent from up on the cliffs and we settled in for a couple of hours in the sun.

 

 
And the swell just kept on coming....

After all that fun, we wandered around Sitio (a neighbourhood on top of the cliff) before heading back down the funicular railway into town.

Tomorrow heralds another day of boat work - we visited a scrap yard today to get some steel for moving the winches to the aft deck, running up a total bill of 3,60 EUR. Given the same steel would have cost us 60GBP, we've pretty much paid for tonight's beers.... We also have to tweak the new rigging slightly, finish off reefing lines and joy oh joy, move the wind gen 2m further up the mizzen mast so it doesn't foul the mainsail - basically, we'll be here another couple of weeks. With the temps hovering in the mid-20's and our weekly grocery bill struggling to break the 40EUR mark, we're not exactly in a rush...