Porto Santo

A little post to inform you that we arrived Porto Santo yesterday evening, after 4 days and 4 hours sailing. Porto Santo is a island in the Madeira group, and the distance to Madeira is 30 nm. (If you didn´t know this, don´t be too depressed, we didn´t know either before some weeks ago.) We will stay here for some days, maybe a week. Tomorrow we will rent scooters and drive wildly around the island. We also want to see the house of Cristoffer Colombus, he lived here once and his house is now a museum. The beach here is one of the best we have seen so far, and we´ll propably spend some hours on it.



We had a great voyage from Carcais to Porto Santo. The wind was from north all the time, and was steady between 10 and 22 kt. The two last days we had a clear sky and were really enjoying the boat life. Bathing in a rope behind the boat was a daily ritual. We also made bread in our new owen on the Optimus stowe. The bread was very good, espesially with butter and cheese (though it could have been a slight bit less heavy. always leave room for improvement). We also made improvements in our celestrial navigational skills, taking several sun sights and calculating our position. This is the way the sailours found their way across the oceans, before the time of the GPS.



The fishing is still a great dissapointment, during our passage we had fish on the hook at least twice (we think we had), but never managed to get any onboard. We have today been talking to the crew on another norwegian boat that had caught several tunas and dorados on their way to Porto Santo, we have received some good tips and believe our chances of getting fish will increase from here on. We still have the faith, because there is always hope in a hanging snore(Eggen)!