Ep 74 Hugging the coast to Gibraltar to avoid orcas v2 4K
September 10, 2023 by Sailing Frida af Wisby | Language: EN Play Time: 00:00:24:55 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
The evening before our departure towards Alcadeisa marina in La Linnia next to Gibraltar, Anders discovered that the pod of orcas that has had violent interactions with hundreds boats and that we have tried to avoid for more than a year sailing down the coast of Portugal was back early in the Gibraltar straight! So instead of the cheerful last cruise towards the Mediterranean Sea as we had imagined it should be we had to lay a new route hugging the coast and we got 11 hours of nervous sailing and motoring with constant watch out for fishing boats and nets and orcas. We also encountered some local current phenomena. Watch the video to follow our last sail to Gibraltar.
We are a middle aged couple that has left our hectic business lives to go sailing with our boat Fridá af Wisby and our cat Litza. Our goal is not to go to a specific place but to reach a state of mind where we can really enjoy life.
Anders has been at the sea most of his life and sailed for the Swedish national dingy sailing team as a young man. Gitte has also grown up with boats and spent every summer sailing with her father as a teenager but made a pause of about 15 years without sailing as an adult, had just begun to pick-up the interest before she meet Anders in 2017. Onboard we also have our cat Litza a 4 year old Devon Rex we call her the cattain because cats always decide over their humans.
Fridá af Wisby is a Wauquiez 47 pilot saloon that we Gitte and Anders bought in UK in 2019 and that we have sailed to Gotland and in season 1 2020 we sail in the Baltic Sea. During season 2 We sailded south to Dieppe Normandy France. After a winter in France in Season 3 we started to sail the Atlantic coast of Europe to Xufre in Spain where we lifted the boat over the summer while we where back in Gotland to work at our hostel we got there. Season 4 got a short sailing season where we only sailed to Lagos on the Algarve coast of Portugal where we hauled out once again this time to go throug a long list of boatwork and to build a solar arch to make the boat more self-suficient with electricity. After 6 months in Lagos we kicked-off season 5 with real bluewater sailing first to the northerly Atlantic island Porto Santo and Madeira and then further out to the Azores that lays in the middle of the Atlantic ocean before turning back towards the mainland and south coast of Portugal again.
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Ep 74 Hugging the coast to Gibraltar to avoid orcas v2 4K Locations
- Gibraltar sund (35.9982398,-5.6878736)
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