S/V Aphrodite

We have been all around Portugal looking for a Portugese Water Dog or Cao do Agua as they are called here.  The breed is purebreed.  They are rare and hard to find, it may take us up to one year to get one.  Today we visited one of the best breeders, Carla, who lives in near [...]

We spent a night in Sines, pronounced “cinch” which is a charming fishing village and set out for Lagos. We sailed downwind with only the Code-0 spinnaker for 5 hours until the winds built to over 20 and we reefed it. Within an hour the winds “died” to 11 knots and we put it back [...]

We sited land on 7/2/07 after a lovely 5 1/2 day downwind sail from the Azores. Arriving mainland Europe was an amazing moment for us, especially for me since just 4 years ago even the thought of it scared me. I still have to pinch myself and look at a world map to realize just [...]

We made landfall in Cascais, Portugal near Lisbon yesterday evening.  The sun was still shinning at 10 in the evening and the port looked beautiful.  We celebrated our crossing with a bottle of reserve Azorean red wine given to us by Pierre who stayed with us several days in San Miguel, Azores.  It was delicious, thanks Pierre!  Our crossing took 5.5 days, [...]