we did it!!!!!!!!!

yipieeeehhhhh, after 23 days, 3010 NM (5580 KM or 3460 Miles) with an average speed of 5.5 knots we arrived save and happy at the beautiful island "islas cies". we are anchored direct at a nice white beach with a little bar. tomorrow we are continuing sailing to vigo (only on the other side 10 NM from here!! we had already our san miguel and are longing for a full night sleep. the last two day we had to handsteer the boat and that is exhausting with only two persons on board.

trey and axel

ole ole ole oleeeeeeee

we are motoring since yesterday and have no wind but we are happy to have only 64 NM to go. tomorrow morning we will be in spain....

390 to go....

since yesterday afternoon we have favorable winds from the SW and are doing good mileages. if the wind blows its always strong and variable so we have to be careful. the waves are choppy and its a tough ride, but we are happy to get closer and closer...
everything fine on board,
axel

506 NM to go

the last 500 miles!! thats good, we are exhausted and would like to have a good nightsleep.
the last 20 h we had almost no wind but just enough to get her going with around 4 knots, not worth to turn on the engine! The sails were flapping and it was not too nice. just 30 min ago the wind picked up and we are goosewinging now with around 6 knots towards vigo. hope we have wind for the last little bit of the passage, then we will see land on the 31. of july...fingers crossed.
everything is fine on board,
axel

wind change

we had two days of good weather and wind from SW with good milage! 640 NM to go!! but yesterday afternoon from one to the other minute the wind changed from SW to NNE and we had the whole night rain. now the wind is still from N but the rain just stopped and i can see the front moving from us and the blue sky is coming. we are sailing close haul at the moment but i hope that the wind turns a bit to NNW and we can sail easy to spain...
everything is fine on board,
axel

heading east...

we have nice wind and i think we got around that low...everything is fine, 850 NM to vigo, axel

low

two nights ago i checked the weather forecast and had a not so good feeling with a low building in the west. so we decided to go south. we ran away from the depression. we did that for 30 h although we have lost a day because of that. but when i checked the weather fax yesterday and they had storm force winds in this depression of more than 60 knots, i was no more sad about the lost day...
at the moment it looks like we just got around the depression and i hope it will not get to bad for the next hours. we are not on course for vigo right now, but we are going ESE for the moment and are getting closer to spain. 925 NM to go.
everything is fine,

axel