Almost There

Monday – I got my first full night off last night and am on ‘House Watch’ today, so I decided to see if the oven is hot enough to cook a steak pie, answer no!! Luckily the convector microwave saved the day. We still have no wind and it is very misty. We decide we can’t motor sail any longer and risk not having any Diesel to be able to motor into La Coruna, so we spend the morning becalmed. As the afternoon arrives we have a little wind and we start sailing at one or two knots. By nine in the evening the wind has died and we start motor sailing again. The fog is now like soup, with all four of us on watch listening and looking, we make our way towards La Coruna. The children are below asleep in their lifejackets and we have a large ship blowing its fog horn on our Starboard side! After four hours we thankfully see lights on the land and start our approach, we are followed in by an enormous ship still blowing her fog horn! We moor up at La Coruna at two in the morning! We are all glad to get to bed……