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ARC + 20018 Day 3 Mindelo to St Lucia

Wind has picked up and we are hurtling along at 6-7knts constant, a bit bumpy and conditions below are challenging,[…]

Well the start of the Mindelo to St Lucia Leg started without any hitch. Well as long as you don’t[…]

We arrived at 18:42 local time, sun had just gone down, bay was pitch black, just dotted with the lights[…]

When we say day 7, in reality its only day 6 of sailing as we’ve included the Sunday we left[…]

Well what an amazing ocean, yesterday we were visited by the largest pod of Dolphins we have ever seen, there[…]

Well here we are at day 5 already, certainly getting warmer the further south we travel, although its 24-5 degs[…]

You can never have enough power all the friends that have gone cruising before us said – and they couldn’t[…]

Well as the song goes, “what a difference a day makes” from hardly anything to 20-25 knots, from flat calm[…]

Well that was a fairly non eventful first night, wind dropped about to zero about 3am, much to our disappointment[…]

So we left Falmouth, although rain was forecast, we had a blazingly hot sunny day, which stayed with us until[…]