All for me grog

We are in Cape Verde!

The weather is fine, the people are great, so great, I am seriously thinking about forget about the passage for this year and stay here for the winter. The surf is wonderful, a lot of kite surfing going on (makes me want to learn) and everything is sooooo relaxed it’s like I belong here. If you like long talks, a lot of fun, warm weather, beautiful beaches, clear water, people from all over the world and you don’t mind waiting for a drink (in an empty bar) for half an hour, Cape Verde is for you. Unfortunately, there is one not so great point and that is the salary you can get here… It’s enough to survive, but definitively not enough to finance future travels.

Let me do a short chronology about the happening in the last days.

I didn’t catch the Marlin, but I dreamt about it…

After the 14^th, when we celebrated Andrea’s birthday we went to Boa vista, where we met a couple of true pirates. I really hope I’ll meet them again, because they seem really serious about their very different way of life to say at least…. I’m sure they’re smuggling drugsJ

Then we left the crew and had a proper sailing day back to the Sal island. 3m+ wavees, sailing up wind with 5-6 bufours (20-25 knots). It was wet and shaky and with no Jane (the auto-pilot).

The new crew was coming so there was the general cleaning and setting the boat ready. After all the comments about the lack of tidiness from the past crew I expected that we’ll have les work (yes Thomas). When the new crew came there was some drama from the beginning. First, I smartly stuck my big toe between the dingy and the Panta, in the exact time when a big wave came (we were anchoring at a beach in front of Santa Maria). From the sound it made I thought that it’s the end of my endless summer, but it seems it got just sprained. Then some german stuff again that I don’t intend to try to understand, but all n all, they seem cool and we’re gonna have fun.

At the moment, I’m having some trouble to make decisions. It seem I have some chances to get a job here, maybe I found a neat Belgian catamaran doing the passage that’s looking for crew (I guess the decision will be taken tomorrow), the other chance is to stay on the Panta for one more week and then find a ride to Mindelo or, if I’m lucky, I get to crew on the Panta till Martinique. But I must say, that at moments I really want to leave and find another boat. Running a charter means you can’t really choose the people you stay with and on a boat can be quite hard at times.

I think I keep with the flow and soon we’ll see…

And today it’s Saturday and Palmeira (where we are at the moment) got crazy!