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Its what you guys call "Spanish tiles" they are actually an invention of the Portuguese. Keeps the heat off our heads.
The wind there changes direction from east in the morning to West after 2 pm, and some days it blows from the North then we have the famous "nortada" winds from the North at 25 to 35 kts for 4 hours then dies completely. at 8 pm
We learnt to "read" the wind by looking at the direction it is blowing. If the wind "follows" the sun in the morning, it goes from east to west, then it blows day and night at around 12 to 25 kts, and we know where to go for good sailing.
If the wind just stays East, at around 5 pm it changes direction, then you're in for speed runs....(and boom breaks)..
funny thing...the "nortada" only stays 3, 6 or 9 days...allways..never saw nortada more than 9 days and never changed from nortada on the 4th. 5th and 7th day!!
So if we have nortada on the 4th day...we already know what to hoiis on the next day....
cool, huh??? then we read the waves, and the sky, but I have no time for that now
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