I’m not going to say much about the crossing as David hopefully gave you a feeling for it each day as we crossed.
There wasn’t much to see, water, sky, sometimes cloud, stars, and always flying fish, even at night, flying fish. We even had a squid on deck one night. Our watch system [...]

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So we left Sal and sailed overnight to isle of Santiago, this is the main island with all the administrative offices. Now for the main island and a port of entry, you would expect some visiting boats, yes, well there was Us. We rounded the corner into the harbour, and thought “What have [...]

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Since my last entry I’ve been busy with housework!  Yes me doing housework, almost unheard of.  David had his list of jobs too, watermaker something, car horn to fit, new socket at the back end to attach, anode to fit, bilges to look at and fit nappy!! Ask David.  I on the other hand was [...]

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Plan to leave today or early tomorrow.
We have lots of good photos on the memory stick but Praia internet, Santiago has deafeated us on the communications front.
Mary´s story of getting ready to leave Canaries and our time on Cape Verde will have to wait until we get to Martinique.
David

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Position 18.674,-22.068 at 7:40 GMT
Wind E 4 ETA Monday Morning
The moon is waning to a very small crescent. Back home this looks like the man in the moon is relaxing in a high backed chair. Here he is sleeping in a hammock! Makes you realise that none of the illustrations of moon from [...]

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Position 20.787, -20.787 at 07:52 GMT.
Wind NE 5/6. 272 Miles to go.
Longitude is now a larger number than the latitude. It will stay this way until we return into the Mediterranean! Will also be smaller if we have to do the trip around South Africa.
In international waters again. More than 200 [...]

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Position 22.75, -19.30 at 07:53 GMT
(Reminder this format can be entered straight into Google maps to show where we are.
Stands for Latitude 22.75N and longitude 19.30W)
415 miles to go. ETA Ihla do Sal, Cape Verde still Monday evening.
We officially crossed the Tropic of Cancer yesterday evening. Feels like the tropics too. Sun [...]

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Position 24.53, -18.15 at 08:30 GMT. 539 miles to go.
Wind NE2.
I thought it was going to be just ourselves for this trip but the dolphins are back. We have had 3 large groups visit. Half a dozen or so of the second group were well clear of the water on a regular [...]

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At 26.014,-16.837 Wind NE force 3.
652 miles to go. ETA at 5 Knots is 20:00 Monday 24th Nov. We have a 0.5 knot current which should mean we get in at first light on Monday.
Wind was oscillating overnight with a 90′ shift every 2 hours or so requiring a gybe. The spare battens [...]

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We got away from a small port on the east of Gran Canaria, Puerto Taliarte, (27.987, -15.371) early this morning. We had moved across from Lanzarote to test out the water maker after fitting the bits Sheana and Ewan had delivered to us. It can only be run in clean waters out of [...]

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