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January 2017

29 Jan

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It has been a few days since we wrote something so hereby a new update. In between the two trips we had two days for maintenance so we painted and varnished and the ship ...

23 Jan

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After a beautiful day of sailing to Mindelo we had a lovely walk on Santo Antão. So it was time to start sailing again on Sunday. Custom clearance took a while because ...

20 Jan

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We (sailors) are not easy to please but sometimes everything is right, wind force, direction and temperature, and this is such a night. We sail doing 8 knots, sometimes ...

18 Jan

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Besides the new guests, there has also been a crew change. So, full of fresh energy we welcomed the new guests in Palmeira for the fifth voyage in Cape Verde. 
After ...

14 Jan

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At 14:40 we arrived at Santa Maria. The manoeuvre went according to plan: with full sails we made a turn 100 meters in front of the beach, we dropped anchor and lowered ...

14 Jan

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After that wild night at São Nicolau weather conditions seem to be back to 'normal'. The wind was a bit too easterly to be able to sail to Boa Vista in a straight course, but...

12 Jan

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The gusts of wind increased during the night. At one point, we saw our dinghy which was hanging on a painter line was flying in the air alongside the ship. With outboard ...

11 Jan

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The last few days we told our guest that they were very lucky with the quiet and easy weather. Of course, we as crew were lucky too.. 
But that’s over. We are at ...

10 Jan

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For the first time in days the sky is cloudy. I wrote earlier that normally there is much more wind in Cape Verde, but times are changing. The sky is grey and the wind has...

03 Jan

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It’s already the last day of this voyage. A voyage that gave us everything in the end, after a few days of biting dust the sky turned blue yesterday. The water at the long...