2 fish caught, 1 bucket lost and Arrival at Cape Verde

Hello Everyone

Ocean Lady has successfully arrived at Sante grande in Sao Vicente in the Cape Verde Islands.  The crossing from Lanzarote took us 7 nights in total, and such a lovely crossing.  One day of no wind, other than that we have had 20 – 25 knots of breeze from the North East. We ran under twin yankee headsails both poled out. This was fantastic, a little rolly on the first day of setting it up, but this was because of an underlying Atlantic swell. Once set up they were adjusted twice.  See photo uploaded.

 

The skies have been clear, the stars have been shining, shooting stars can be spotted almost every night! We had the most incredible encounter with dolphins as previously blogged.  Unfortunately in my desperate attempt to take a photo that will justify how amazing it was, I took about 20 photos none of which justified it.  See the uploaded photo.  There are others that we can bore you with when we get home J

 

The fish quota was lacking, we tried green muppet lures, silver lures etc! But in the end the green muppet won.  We were very excited to be called to the deck from Alan who was fighting to reel in the fishing line.  He had caught a Mahi Mahi weighing in about 10 Ib, the little thing put up a good fight,  but unfortunately it lost and Stu is preparing it for dinner tonight…yum yum!!! Alan’s skills in gutting fish were immense all done and dusted in 5 mins…Stu on the hand trying to clean the mess up not so good, and managed to lose Alan’s favourite 15 year old  bucket overboard, a bucket that has been with the boat since she was launched and seen Alan through 80,000 miles of sailing…feel guilty Stu??? J

 

We have seen flying fish scanning the surface of the sea, and one was even caught on board (see photo).  After 4 days of seeing no other boast the satisfaction of seeing land, and even better other boats was even great.  One British couple in the marina have recognised the boat from Lanzarote and it turns out they leave on Tuesday for Barbados like us, so we can try to keep in contact during our journey. 

 

Love to all at home

 

Ocean Lady