Marina do Funchal
Sheltered harbor-side yacht basin lined with cafes, charter boats and big game fishing vessels.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Marina do Funchal on Madeira follows Peter Bristow, an Australian marlin captain who arrived in nineteen ninety-seven with a converted navy gunboat and nowhere to moor it. It reaches back to the nineteen nineties, when rumours of giant Atlantic blue marlin drew sport fishermen from America and France to this crowded harbour. Best heard at the pontoons, looking out toward open water.
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