Rosa Fascia - Farewell to the Cape Verdes!

After a wonderful few days in and around the Cape Verde Islands, it was also
time to go! We are sailors after all! The start was picturesque, giving a
wonderful view of Mindelo behind us. We set too large a sail area and
although it was great for a while, we like others were caught out. Several
'awkward moments' over the course of the next hour had us all very focussed,
but before we could reduce sail area we had lost one of our Dan Buoys over
the side and had the cabin rather untidy. But the Dan Buoy deployed
perfectly, so that was good to know!

Things have since settled down a lot and we seem to be going well, after
such a poor start to proceedings. Some things though don't change - Amanda
continues to spoil us with superb gastronomic delights, we enjoy logging on
to the Fleetviewer website every 4 hours to check progress and having email
and internet contact with the outside world is wonderful. Broadband on a 43
ft yacht is rather nice!

Richard Denny, Rosa Fascia.