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Final leg of a passage from Rio to Argentina. 220 gentle miles by contrast to the storm force 10 conditions on the first leg! Fabulous skipper and crew. A memory I shall treasure forever. X

We woke up this morning and the harbour of Colonia del Sacramento was open, so we could actually leave Uruguay!!! The sad news is that there was absolutely no wind, not even a breeze. We didn’t have much choice apart from using the engine all the way from Uruguay to Argentina 😅😅 It was 50 miles of against the current motoring trip, not my favourite type of trip, well, I guess nobody likes this kind of trip 😅😅😅 At least we had absolutely no waves. Every now and then we would have some quick and wild waves coming from a ferry that passed by. I must admit I didn’t do much regarding the navigation today. I let Jurri and his father having a nice moment together, enjoying the sunshine and speaking in Dutch, and I spent the day playing with Chris, cooking lunch and running other errands bellow deck. We had to enter in the delta of the river and engine a couple of extra miles because the water is too shallow around here. The only way to get to this region of Tigre is from this route. We came to the Yacht Club Argentina from San Fernando, about 1h away from Buenos Aires. They say this is the Argentinian Venice, and it is the most popular sailing place of Buenos Aires province. We are curious to start exploring here 😃

This is was a short sailing trip 😂😂 We spent our Sunday doing all bureaucracies to leave Uruguay early this morning and to set sail for Argentina. Before we left, we called the port control to inform that we were leaving, as per requirement, and they wished us a nice trip. As soon as we left the harbour, seriously, 30 seconds after we left, they called us back in the radio saying that we had to come back because the harbour of Colonia del Sacramento was closed due to heavy winds and we technically could not leave 😳 Our captains answer on the radio was ‘but sir, the meter shows only 10kts of wind’ 😂 the answer was ‘yes, I know, I’m sorry for that but the harbour is closed’. Ok, it was 10kts of wind at the harbours bay, but outside it was more, maybe 15-20kts of wind. Still, this warning of closure should be restricted to the small sailboats/fishing boats from here, and not for open ocean, blue waters sailboat. Anyway, there was nothing much we could do, apart from accepting that we had to stay. Going back to the pier wasn’t really an option, as the water level in the harbour was so high that it went over everything. The first picture is from when we arrived here and moored at the wall, it was easy to walk out of the boat and into the pier. The second picture is from last night, the water was over the pier and already on the the height of the clits where we attached our mooring lines. We even had to lower the dinghy in order to get in and out of the boat. The third picture is from this morning, when jurri basically had to dive to release the mooring lines from the clits 😅 They said the water level here doesn’t have much to do with the tides but with the wind direction and speed. So, as the maritime control denied our departure, we just took a morning buoy outside the harbour, lowered the dinghy and went to the city to enjoy on extra bonus day in Colonia :) Tomorrow is a new day and we’ll have a new attempt to leave Uruguay 😁