Lomvi - Day 8 and 9 - Vagues mouton!

Dear leaders of the night,

All is well out here in the purpose of life. While you went around preparing for Christmas, your adventure friends had the following 48 hours:

We could not send you a satellite broadcasted message yesterday, beacuse the day was to beautiful for us to spend another hour on the sat phone. Getting weather take from 30 min to 4 hours.

Capitalism had a number of flaws, but the fact that there is now competition in the market for satellite providers, is probably good. We give iridium 3 out of 10, and would probably not buy again. If you find this to be a compelling argument for less government intervention, remember that everything we do in space could never happened without the efforts of a interventionist government. Want to know how and why? Read Mariana Mazzucato's Mission Economy, a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. Highly recommended, 10 out of 10 and we would buy the book again.

Drifting back to the topic, how great it is to be alive out here in the big pool!

Yesterday conditions were close to perfect. Swell had dropped, and periods were longer. A gentle breeze swiftly carrying us along with both genoa and main sail out. We all agreed it was a perfect day. Pizza for lunch. And a surprise party in the afternoon. The girls had bought beautiful shirts and dresses from Africa, which were received with excitement by the boys. Accompanied with a beer the girls served a bean lentils based traditional dish from Cape Verde. Sprayhood was down and our only concern was that this might be peak in life.

This morning we reached HALF WAY! Can you believe it? We are now closer to the Caribbean than to Africa! It is about the be celebrated with a bourgeois beer, champagne.

Today we also found a message in a bottle! It turns out pirates have borded our ship this night, and hidde a treasure on board. The message also contained a map of our boat, and where the treasure was hidden. Hjalmar was shouting in enthusiasm, and he now believes we are actually pirates too.

Wind is shifting today. Squalls come and go. We have sailed genaker, genoa main, genoa reefed main and only genoa. Overcast so we had to motor two hours to charge batteries.

All in all we are enjoying our weekend out here. It took us nine days to get to here, maybe we reach the Caribbean in nine days?

Enjoy your Saturday!
Your friends in the fair winds,
Team7steps