Our electric motor died on us (well, half of it did so we only have 10 of the 20kW available) and even though we never push the motor hard, it just doesn’t have the same thrust that it used to to maneuver us.
Instead of relying on it and being disappointed, we just ignore it’s presence and rely solely on our sails.
This means that leaving a harbor requires us to sail off anchor and arriving in a harbor requires us to anchor under sail.
In this episode, we leave Portimao (a narrow and crowded river) in Portugal and sail around 100 nautical miles offshore to Cadiz in Spain.
When our motor worked fine, this was still our primary method of getting underway as it doesn’t needlessly waste charge that we could use later on in our journey.
