After the initial posting, progress was both slow and actually off course, towards the Carribean for 2-3 days due to a really uncomfortable swell running on our beam and the wind being directly behind us. Being the lazy cruiser I am, we simply flew minimal sail and run with the swell until it died down before getting back on course again.
The weather throughout the trip was generally a major let down considering how far south we are and just off the coast of Africa, patchy sun, windy and quite cold during the day and squally, rainy and damp each night. The last day or so, while we had lovely flat seas and hot sunshine, we had very little wind to actually sail. I imagined the trip would take around 7 days (100 nm per day), Lindsey was hoping for 6 days but we ended up taking 8 days.
We were greeted by Quartermoon, Sym & Amy who guided us into the anchorage as I only had a pilot book and no chart available. Sadly, Aliisa had left for the Carribean the day before we arrived. Good luck for the crossing guys! Stay in touch and let us know when you are safely across.
Sym & Amy told us they were close to contacting the UK Falmouth Coast Guard to see if we had let off our EPIRB or if they had heard any news about us, as they (along with others) were getting very worried about us. A new lesson I have learnt (read the manual) is that I can’t keep more than 30 SMS messages on the sat phone as it prevents new ones from being delivered. With lots of previous trip messages and a whole stream of jokes being received and kept while en-route, I didn’t receive the anxious ones – doh!
Note to self: Always read and delete SMS messages immediately and leave the Sat phone turned on all the time when crossing the Atlantic!
On the subject of SMS messages, many thanks to you guys who sent them, at one stage I had the only Sat phone joke line in the Atlantic ocean, it was great to hear from you all again, Dave, Nick, Francois, Crutey, Prav, Kat, etc
Anyway, enough for this post, I will post again soon with whats new and cool in the Cape Verdes.
Boo & Doris.
1 comment:
Is that's your way of saying Crutey filled up my Sat phone with crap? ;-)
Glad you made it in one piece!
Sad to see Lindz is leaving, I'm sure this isn't the last we will hear of her on this Blog. Have a good Christmas Lindz!
Christmas is a blast here, Little un has tonsillitis and I tore off my big toe nail last night dropping one of her presents on it! No amount of pain killers + booze takes away the pain!!
Real shame you aren't seeing more of Cape Verdes, still recon you should just sail round and round the Isle of Wight!
Speak soon!
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