If you anchor, do you have always the weather forecast in the eye. We had let the last few days something grind. So we stood on Thursday morning to five o'clock almost perpendicular in bed as the wind with almost 25 Node through the port was blowing and the waves unpleasantly loud applauded the Tailboard, our SUMMER.

After we had assured us, that the anchor kept us safe at our location, We filed yesterday a second round of sleep with ear plugs after the tiring ride.

Nach dem Frühstück war dann Hafenkino angesagt 🙂 Gleich als erstes kam ein großer Containerfrachter mit Lotse in den Hafen.

Fear and worry was the poor little anchor trailer and he took the escape. Maybe even better, You should be as “Crumb” not with the “Cake” anlegen 🙂

Throughout the day were more than 25 Boats and catamarans here in Horta and in the meantime it was like in a Dovecote.

Da musste Platz geschaffen werden 🙂 Und den meisten Platz an der Kaimauer nahm eindeutig der schweizer Dreimaster ein. So out with it! In the side winds, He ruled today, certainly no simple task. But in the second attempt with the help of two “Tractors” entstand eine große Lücke für den dringend benötigten Platz 🙂

Aber nicht lange 🙂

So it was the day quite turbulent, It was never really alone even at anchor and was even in larger, orbiting time in smaller arches.

After all, no one came alongside or drove us one “Bump” in the boat. An den Stegen gab es zwischenzeitlich schon mal leichte Blessuren und Kratzer 🙁

Dietmar made it clear the dinghy in the afternoon and drove ashore. In addition to some little things in the yacht shop he wanted to take care of a car for our trip on the island of Pico. Tomorrow morning we wanted to take the ferry over.

As a precaution, I checked the weather first. Oops, What was that? Uncomfortable much wind was announced for Saturday for the island of Faial. At anchor we wanted not so much experience that after last night, but here in the port, now arguably the last place was occupied. My call in time reached Dietmar, before he had booked the rental car. Sometimes it is simply super, dass ein Besuch im Yachtshop eigentlich immer etwas länger dauert 🙂 So änderten wir spontan unsere Pläne: Tomorrow we continue after Velas on the island of Sao Jorge. Um nicht vor einem besetzen Hafen zu liegen haben wir dann sicherheitshalber noch telefonisch einen Platz für uns reserviert 🙂

Since we have adopted us earlier than planned from Faial and Horta, not even handed it, um uns ordentlich an der Hafenmauer mit einem gemalten Bild zu verewigen 🙁

But my time enough yet for a little trip to the Guia Hill right on the Harbour, While Dietmar took to the formalities of the check out.

Ein Blick zurück über die ganze Insel Faial 🙂

Or in the Cadeirinhas :-), the upstream volcanic crater

Or rather to the neighbouring island of Pico the Green Vulkan.

Actually no matter, everything was beautiful. Back at the port I caught up with Dietmar and we drank a farewell beer at Peters sports bar and enjoyed the views of the Harbour. Here, the entire sailing world met really. Beautiful, das wir auch hier sein durften 🙂