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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