Ep13 - Lockdown at Sea!
Denied permission to enter port, stopped from landing our dinghy on a remote beach on the first day of lockdown in Spain. The Spanish authorities moved quickly, so quickly that it caught a lot of people out including us. After having spent a couple of weeks at anchored we venture ashore for a walk on a sunny weekend there are a few people out walking dogs and running but there is also a police man who tells everyone they must return home. Lockdown has started. We realise in a state of lockdown we will be short on food, water and gas for cooking so must find a way to restock. This was not how we thought our sailing season would start this year!
Corona virus has taken hold in Spain and extreme measures have been brought in everywhere. Marina offices are unmanned and it’s only when we arrive at a marina entrance that someone answers the VHF to tell us we can’t land and must leave.
It’s a world crisis and in some ways we feel lucky to be out at anchor in our own boat / isolation ward! But there are real issues in getting essential supplies.
This is a special extra episode of Sailing Fair Isle all filmed in the last 4 days to show the situation as it stands right now.
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