LinoCat

The wireless in the marina is so slow that i feel it like a flashback to my commodore 64 times with a 300baud acoustic coupler. So i rather continue with the Optimus prepaid data card and HSPA even though that is totally unreliable here. Today we used the rental car to explore some areas of Madeira. The airport is built like a bridge on concrete pillars and very impressive. You can stand very close to where the jets land or take off, depending on the wind direction. A car with around 40BHP is tooooo weak to climb up the mountains and having fun. I think the last time i had such a car was my mums old VW beetle built 1965 (my age yeaaaahh) and that was around 30BHP i think. We visited one of the flower gardens and walked around there. With some rainshowers in between it was nice that they had a tea house. Then we drove to Funchal. The marina their looks ugly but is in the heart of the city and the main streets near by have free WIFI and the speed is good there. I downloaded a news webcas...

Marina Quinta do Lorde is new compared to the crowdy marina of Funchal. Especially bigger boats or catamarans might use this marina as an alternative. Trans-Ocean members or ARC participants get 10-20% discount. The staff is young and very friendly. They can organize rental cars and will give tips on where to go. Also the marina has a washer and a dryer. Do not believe the dryer that for 2 Euro it would dry your clothes. If you just insert 3 it might work out :-) The bar and restaurant seems to be good and we will check this out tonight. Again we are also waiting for a parcel with spareparts but not because things are broken but just to stack up our supplies. Too sad that Dieter with the Trimaran Flying Kefi had to return to Portimao since a part of his Hydrovane broke right after the left the marina. I would have loved to sail with him a few hours here in the bay to check out his Dragonfly 1200 Trimaran. He is a nice and helpful guy and we had some dinners together. Maybe he will catc...