Location: 27 50.8'N 016 23.0'W
Today we started
What we’ll finish in three weeks
Blue skies, blue seas ahead
Yesterday we bought
Twelve carts of food for cooking
Fridge is very full
Passage prep is done
Booms topped, lines run, and sails flaked
Eat lunch and then leave
Our time in Europe
Comes to a blustery close
Caribbean next
If a storm hits us
It’s batton down the hatches
She will see us through
“That would be so sick!”
“You will whistle up the wind”
“You don’t believe that!”
It is dinner time
Forty knots consistent wind
Reefing in the main
Sliding across decks
Water breaks over the bow
We’re soaked to the bone
Some seasick shipmates
Face the power of the sea
And come out on top
Dinner down below
Falafel and pita bread
Sit in soaked silence
It is Jack’s birthday
We feast on brownies and cake
Dessert above all
Photo 1:
Walk to the police
To clear the EU customs
Impromptu nap time
Photo 2:
Leaving Tenerife
The sun brushes the island
Calm before the storm
Photo 3:
Wind begins to swell
Man, we are really cooking
No time for photos