The day after my outing to Santanyi was not quite so pleasant, there was no sailing to be done in the estimated 4-5 metre waves breaking just beyond the entrance to the cala. We were also treated to 30 knot winds in the marina and torrential rain !! We enjoyed a great breakfast at the local cafe and watched the waves go by ! We met other sailors who had had to divert on their way from Malta to Gibraltar because the conditions were simply not enabling them to move forwards. They tried to get to Ibiza but had to turn back and found themselves in Porto Petro, as we said before a relatively safe port in a storm.
The forecast was for the weather to be much better the next day, although that seemed unlikely looking at the clouds the evening before, until the rainbow appeared, that cheered us up!
Thursday morning came, Tines and I went out to check the weather and as predicted the sea really had calmed down a lot. I headed to the local bakery to get croissants and watched another yacht depart, everything looked good. We prepared the boat and ….. it started raining! However, this was just rain, it was not accompanied by high winds or swell so we decided to depart. We booked a mooring space at a place called La Rapita and headed out, we had no real issues, other than being wet and quite cold (remember, we’re not that used to rain, in fact, I think this was possibly the first time we have actually departed in the rain) We arrived at the marina, only to be told that we had to wait half an hour to enter (Spanish half an hour could be up to an hour) so we decided to move on.
This was a good decision because the weather was improving (it had stopped raining by this time) and we got ourselves round to S’Arenal which is in Palma bay, we can see all of Palma from the marina. This is a great marina and we just arrived at sunset, very tired but happy to have gone another 38,9 nautical miles on our journey back to Cartagena.
The Adventures of Gemini J 