Portugal
Dentex PassPorto Heli
al límitemar de fondo hoy de través (nivel ciudad)
- ventana
- First light, before the boats wake and before the midday breeze. The season opens on 1 June, since the whole of May is shut across Greece, and the honest windows are June and again September to October, when the gulf clears. Night, sunset to sunrise, is banned.
- marea
- Tide is nothing here, ten to forty centimetres. What you read is the flow through the pass off the cape: it runs, slackens and turns back, and after two or three days of northerly it sets hard along the rock. Watch the buoy line before you drop and work the up-current side.
- abrigo
- This is not the sheltered Porto Heli bay: the point lies out past Cape Korakas, the western tip of the Kranidi peninsula, in the open Argolic Gulf. The cape is the only cover you get and it holds off the south and south-west. From north and north-east nothing stands in the way.
- condiciones
- Come on a southerly or south-westerly; a light south-east still works. The dead sector is 350 to 70 degrees, worst around 30: a north-easterly runs the whole length of the gulf onto the cape, swell stacks against the flow and the pass turns milky from twenty metres down.
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