Logbook

• Departure: Los Escullos (36.8030, -2.0564), Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 09:34 UTC
• Arrival: Carboneras (36.9896, -1.8984), Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 19:54 UTC
• Duration: 10.3 h
• Distance: 28.8 nm
• Average speed: 2.8 kn
• Crew: Tobi, Anna, J, E

Departed Los Escullos for Carboneras, a full day underway covering 29 nautical miles at 2.8 knots average. Wind 6–9 kn from the ENE, gusting to 19 kn. Current up to 0.5 kn setting WSW. The “marina” at Carboneras turned out to be a rickety pier with questionable electricity — and, in the low season no less, an eye-watering 50€ a night.

Logbook

• Departure: Almerimar (36.6771, -2.6737), Monday, April 21, 2025 at 19:04 UTC
• Arrival: Los Escullos (36.8046, -2.0589), Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 11:12 UTC
• Duration: 16.1 h
• Distance: 39.9 nm
• Average speed: 2.5 kn
• Crew: Tobi, Anna, J, E

Weighed anchor at Almerimar, bound for Los Escullos — a long day that ran past sunset covering 40 nautical miles at an average of 2.5 knots. Wind 0–8 kn from the WSW, gusting to 18 kn. Current up to 1.4 kn setting ENE. The autopilot packed in early on, so the whole leg was hand-steered. Worth it, though — the anchorage at Los Escullos, in front of an old fort, was a fine reward.

invernaje, as they say in spanish,

is the process of getting everything ship-shape and then leaving the boat for a few months until the usual end-of-year crazyness is over, the november storms have come and gone, and the crew has been released after being shanghaied by their parents to fix the wifi at their ancestral homes during the dreaded end-of-year-festivities.

and so we say goodbye to our new-to-us boat for the next months. which makes no sense, because it’s way nicer and warmer here than back home, especially in december. but i digress.

anyhow: stay tuned, we’ll continue the journey sometime in march/april with a few weeks of DIY boat fixer-uppery (might contain glorious sanding…) and maybe even a few days out on the water.