We took the bus, 30 minutes with lots of stops, out to the seaside resort town of Sanxenxo (San-shen-show) near Pontevedra. We walked the beach, it was low tide and fun to walk on, saw the harbor and had a nice lunch at a place frequented by locals. The fancier places are tapas places with no menu del dia.
We walked out the pier and came to the harbor:
We have visited many small boat harbors on this trip. We have posted a number of photos. They have cute little boats, often in some disrepair, obviously owned by people from the town.
I looked at these boats and, whoa, these are fancy boats. Here are some more:
Some of these are 40+ feet. We are getting into Portofino territory here. Actually I’m lying about that. We were in Portofino a few years ago and the boats in Portofino are as far above these boats as they are above the rowboats we have been seeing before. But still, pretty fancy boats, way more expensive that anything we have seen before on this trip.
We walked along farther and came upon a boat repair facility. They had 20-30 boats in dry dock. We saw a work cleaning barnacles off a propeller. I noticed their boat crane was being moved. Video here.
As you can see the key thing is: slow and careful. They were going to lift a boat out for repair. I didn’t see them lift it but here is the boat being attached to the crane straps. I love to see skilled workers doing their job and making it look easy.
