BLUE’S FINAL FLING
When we kept our Swift Trawler 34 in the UK we didn’t rely on the anchor very much at all. We’d drop the hook for lunch stops, lazy afternoons and when taking a dip but would always head to the security of a pontoon or mooring buoy for overnight stops.
The anchor is called into service far more regularly in Portimao, where our best-loved cruising destinations are all anchorages, which though generally have decent holding in sand, tend to be relatively shallow, tide-ravaged and often buffeted by a niggling afternoon breeze that is keen to get in on the action. Our favourite anchorage, the fishing village of Alvor, is very shallow and the
