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 😁

First attempt to leave Colonia

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