Saturday17th to Friday 23rd August

Apart from a total of 10 miles there and back to Alvor for Sunday night Imagine has stayed in Lagos marina. She'll be here now until next Spring. We're stripped the sails off, moused all the running rigging, cleaned her inside and out. A new anchor roller is being built for us and the engines will be winterised and serviced when I return for 3 days in October. We'd love to carry on sailing but we've got exciting reasons to be returning home. It's been a season of two halves; first the challenging trip to get down here after weeks of preparation and months of planning. We did our longest non stop passage of 580nm to Bayona. We had some great sailing days, strong winds and miserable weather, and then we turned the corner into the Algarve. Since then we've visited pretty much every anchorage and marina between here and Cadiz and welcomed four lots of guests to join us. We've got used to wearing only shorts and t shirts. We've forgotten what rain looks and feels like. We've had great company and visited some great places. Our total logged distance is 1760.1 nm and combined engine hours of 402.1. Next year the Med.