however it would be another day before we arrived at Mindelo.
We had just gone between the first islands Fogo and Santiago and we had huge dark
clouds behind us to the south with a light NE wind blowing, so we were
motoring. Dusty was on watch and mentioned 'I think thats going to hit us' and
sure enough it did! 'a rolling cigar cloud', luckly we were motoring as the
strongest wind recorded was 54 knots with very heavy rain.
At daybreak we had reached Mindelo to beautiful sunshine! We decided to moor
alongside this year and it made things so much better. We did the normal
formalities and then explored Mindelo and the local beer!!. Things are very
limited there but you get mainly get everything you need.
Mindelo has very laid back atmosphere, I did notice that there were a few
differences from last year, they have a fuel dock now and the water is not a
strange yellow colour! Although you do have to pay for water.
We met up with a boat 'BLUES' a 90ft monohull built by Southern Wind in Cape Town.
They were sailing to Palma! Just as we were leaving we noticed a huge
mast of the other boat that was in Cape Town 'Pink Gin' this is a beautiful 160ft
monohull that I have been around and got to know some of the crew and
skipper. Pink Gin is privately owned and cost 28 million euros to build. Its about
3 years old, but now heading to Norway for a 6 month refit,
unbelievable. There next stop for them is the Azores.
Now well rested we press onwards with our voyage.
We are heading NE with very little wind our current position: 19 06N and 24 23W.
Vol de Nuit out.....
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