Spain 29th March to the 31st March “It was such a relief to finally drop anchor in Ares Spain.


Tuesday, we sailed into “Ares bay” in Spain late in the evening, we were both so tired we had dinner and went straight to bed.
The bad news was I had tested positive for Covid! which meant there was going to have to be a change of plans, we wouldn’t be able to check into Spain till I tested negative.


“Thanks to Covid we would have to stay put for an indefinite period”

Wednesday waking up late, the decision was made to stay in Ares bay, have a rest and get a few much-needed jobs done. Crank up the water maker, learn how to use the washing machine, make a loaf of bread, and tidy up. We were very grateful that we installed a water maker and a generator before leaving France. The water maker filled up our tanks in no time at all and by running the generator we could have the heater going, run the washing machine, and have nice hot showers.
I was still not very well, and Marcel was very tired we stayed on Kiri for the day and started planning our trip down the coast of Spain.
Kiri had one other boat for company a French boat anchored across the bay “Belharra” it was nice to know we weren’t totally on our own.
Much to our surprise it seemed to be as cold here in Spain as in France. Before leaving France Marcel had told me once we got to Spain it would be a lot warmer, this definitely wasn’t the case. Therefore, we were surprised that it was so cold, giving the generator and AC / heater a good test run.

“Marcel is not feeling great”

Thursday, while I was beginning to feel a lot better and my energy levels had started to increase, Marcel had no energy at all, against all odds we hoped he hadn’t caught Covid as at that point he was still testing negative.
Our goal was to leave this bay in the morning for a 40nm trip to Corme or Lax. The weather gods still weren’t being nice to us, it was very cold with persistent rain “An interesting fact we learned from Google, apparently, the weather on the Spanish Rias is very similar to Ireland”
With the rain came lots of leaks in the cockpit, our enclosure was not watertight. The helm station and the cockpit would need to be sorted out on the best way to stop as much of the leaking as possible. Till we had figured out how to fix the annoying leaks the key thing to remember was not to leave pillows, hats & our life jackets out where they would get a good soaking.

Early in the afternoon Marcel had a spurt of energy and decided to put Slinky dinghy down so we could go to Ares town, that was till he realized we had a big problem! Where oh where was the safe place that the key for the outboard was hiding in? Eventually, the spare key was found enabling us to go ashore for the first time since leaving France five days ago. After a very quick walk through Ares, it was very quiet with not much happening only a few cafes open we returned to Kiri, feeling happy to have stretched our legs and seen a bit of the Spanish architecture. Arriving back on Kiri I hoped Marcel didn’t have Covid as he was very grumpy and tired.


Footnote: this isn’t the first time Marcel had misplaced a key. During our road trips, we had a few very scary moments when the all-important car key disappeared for a length of time.

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Sailing Kiri Maia

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