We finally made our escape from Ibiza first thing on Thursday morning, we found calm seas and light winds at the start of the day as we said goodbye to San Antonio. We were lucky enough to watch the sunrise as we departed. Once the sun was up we got stunning views of the smaller islands, just off San Antonio bay.
The wind picked up as we got out to sea with around 12-14 knots all day, we had to motor sail to keep up good speed to cover the distance – and we were sailing really close to the wind all day. This made the turns we took on the helm hard work but enjoyable.
We got through the “inshore traffic zone” off Cabo de la Nau with just one close-ish encounter with a big transporter ship and we saw quite a few in the distance. We also overheard radio traffic between them discussing the routes they were taking to make sure they were on different courses from each other which was interesting. We were exhausted when we arrived in Moraira at half past seven, just under 12 hours later. We had to enter the marina in the dark and moor alongside which involved some excellent skippering from Nigel to get the boat set right extremely quickly. The marina here is beautiful as we found out when we woke up the next morning, but the entrance is very short, not much time to work out where the fenders need to be and how to approach the mooring space. I was happy that I had prepared chicken fajita “stew” the day before so it was quick to prepare our meal and for once we weren´t reliant on the famous curry that I seem to have prepared after all the other crossings 😉
The Adventures of Gemini J 