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Silver Slipper - Silver Slipper and 1000 miles



Silver Slipper.

Well the Silver Slipper achieved 1000 miles today at 17.05 on 2nd December. The first 1000 miles has been full of great memories. Only one night of 6/7’s and some confused seas but on the whole the sailing has been great. We went south/south east from Las Palmas and followed the African coast and then headed west to the Cape Verdes.  After motoring for around 100 hours in the first week we decided to put into Mindelo and top up our fuel tanks. We spent last night, 1st December hove too just off Sao Nicolau and set off this morning motor sailing to Mindelo to try and arrive at the fuel dock at daybreak. What a good decision that was. 8.30am and we were the first yacht to be refuelled. We said, our hellos to many friend already in port and many others just arriving for the same reasons. By 9.45 we were off and 4 miles south of the Islands we picked up an nice NE breeze and have been sailing westward ever since at over 6 knots. Sun is out and tans are being topped up. We are now really crossing the Atlantic. As I write this we are doing 7.2 and just about to sit down to a good beef curry on deck. Life can get not better than this. Looking forward to the rum punch. Happy sailing all.

Silver Slipper crew 



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