Category Archives: Canaries to Cape Verde

Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Hurrah! What a birthday present. Arrival at a new destination. Brilliant. We got here about 0330 this morning and once anchored we all had … Continue reading →

Mind-e-lo!!! So land ahoy! It’s 1606 as I write and Adam has just spotted land. It’ll be the island of “Santo Antao” the one just north of “Sao Vicente” (St Vincent) where we’re headed, to the port of “Mindelo”. We … Continue reading →

Bernice arrives on watch at 3am, the graveyard shift 3-6am, to find out from Paul we’ve ran out of gas! Not completely you understand, just the bottle we were using, and not a good idea to change till morning as … Continue reading →

It’s 0020 and Bernice has decided to brave a solo night watch. Rather than change all the watch system right away we’ve elected to split our 3 hour watch up into two 1.5 hour stints. See how it goes we’re … Continue reading →

Waking up around 730am again (becoming routine like) we get up and join Adam on his watch. He says he’s been not stop, trimming sails moving the genoa across to the goose-wing position etc… We have brekkie of toast as … Continue reading →

Early to bed, early to rise! Up at 7am we decide on toast for brekkie as the gennie is on. Then bread making and teatowel washing are the jobs for this morning, get them done before the day heats up. … Continue reading →

What a morning! About 730am we snap. The batteries are really low and some of the instruments have given up the ghost – Paul used a lot of power on his watch trying to get his sailmail (emails). We try … Continue reading →

The morning arrives as we arise, around 9am having had a mere 3 hours sleep, to a cup of real coffee. Excellente! Freshly baked bread – toast and jam/peanut butter. What more could we ask for. The wind is good … Continue reading →

Mid morning on our watch and the biggest shoal of dolphins we’ve seen yet turn up – accompanied by lots of whooping and strange clicky noises… weird crew right They’re with us for quite some time. We have some video … Continue reading →

Hurray, we wake up about 7.40am and find lots of dolphins swimming around the boat. Top tastic :0) – dolphin photo We are still on mother watch till noon so a little cleaning and prep done and Huw manages to … Continue reading →