Sunday 27th

We have spent the last few days in the Ria Muros. It is an impressive piece of water four miles wide and seven miles long. we anchored off Muros itself and fell in love with the place. A quaint typical Spannish fishing village ,with narrow windy lanes or alleyways and full of character. It was so nice we stayed for three nights and just chilled.

On Saturday we took the local bus to Santiago de Compestilla. A visit well worth doing. The cthederal is magnificent and is where the remains of the apostle St. James rest. It is a place of pilgrimage and there were hundreds (possibly close to if not more than a thousand) of pilgrims who walk across the North Coast of Spain to Santiago to pay homage, and we arrived by bus as they arrived on foot for a big church service.

The town is beautiful and very historic and interesting.

Tomorrow with a hoped for improvement in the weather we hope to head south to Bayona for a few days and then take favorable winds south down the Portugese coast.

We have loved and strongly recomend Galacia which iss well worth visiting for it s culture, cuissine and exceptional wines. We have eaten so well and inexpensivly.  On our return journey from Santiago we visited a local bar whilst waiting for our connection and we had four glasses of wine (local but by no means plonk) and a beer the total cost four euro!!

Ray & Mandy

Hello all,
        today 27th May and guess what a rainy day in spain so we are staying in and catching up I have just posted photo's of Ray,Noah the dove our stow away and me with the spainish coast in the background,and then Josephine in the Marina I think Josephine looks well after her crossing the same cannot be said for me but that was after 2 nights and 3 days without proper sleep or food and I had more Sleep that Ray!
      Anyway we have recovered and ae now in Ria Muros have had a few lovely days of weather and today is not good but good forcast for tomorrow so south to Vigo we hope to go.

Photo's of the 4 of us on arrival to La Coruna!

MON 21st May We are now fully recovered from our crossing and really enjoying Galacia. We at present in Camarinas a quiet Ria. As you come in from the sea it is like being transported to the Lake District or a Scotish Loch. The area is heavily forrested and quite beautiful. We were not quite sure what to expect when we got here and thought we may have to anchor off a noisey fishing port. However we found a nice and sophisticated town with a small very friendly marina and yacht club. Tomorrow we heads off to the Ria Muros and hope to go inland to visit Santiago de Compestilla.(look it up on the net) it is reputed to be one of Spain's most beautiful old city's. Thanks for your messages we do appreciate them, Ray & Mandy

la Coruna N Spain. Hi everybody we have now arrived in La Coruna, and we are very pleased to be here. The Bay of Biscay lived up to its reputation. We left Falmouth early on Friday 12th and arrived on Sunday at 1820 bst. The forecast was for light or little wind, what did we get? A howling gale and seas like you would not believe Josephine and Mandy did very well and we are now recuperating in this beautifull Spanish city. Tomorrow we set off around the corner ( cape Finistre) and start to explore the Rias, which are reputed to be especially beautifull. We are very new to this blog idea so please be patient with us. We will attempt to post some picks soon. Wishing you all the best, Ray and Mandy Many thanks to Mark Watson for setting up this site. L Hywoods computer wiz kid.

Hi everybody from Ray and Mandy.

We set off from Gosport in mid April and have eventually arrived in Falmouth and we are now ready to depart, next stop N Spain!


We have been plauged by bad weather from the day we arrived on the boat but have had a great time visiting Weymouth, Dartmouth, Plymouth and finaly Falmouth which we have really enjoyed.

On route we met our very good friends Sam and June who have a beautifull boat in Plymouth and they followed us down to Falmouth whilst they were competing in a three port triangular race. Sam and June look set to raise an incredible £3000.00 plus in sponsorship for the Macmillan Nurses.

In Falmouth we met Dudley Tapper from Ingestre golf club and his new wife. They came on board and we had a lovely afternoon.

We leave Falmouth at around 0300 on Friday 11/05 and hope to arrive in La Coruna in approx 3/4 days time. After all the adverse conditions that we have endured the weather is hopefully turning in our favor with N/NW winds forecast, and possibly a little sun!

WE will, all being well, post another blog on our arrival and would be delighted to hear from you all from time time to time. Our boat e mail is;
sailwithjosephine@yahoo.co.uk

Ray & Mandy   

Setting sail!

Hi all,

We intend to set sail from Falmouth to northwest Spain on Thursday 10th May 2012 :-)