Leaving without satelitte phone

Yes, it is Friday, and the SIM card is not here. The post office know nothing and the courier DHL says it is probably on its way to Funchal on Madeira and will be there the 21st of June! And as you know, Madeira is not the Azores, but another group of islands in the Atlantic. We don´t have time to wait for something that we don´t know when will show up, so we have decided to leave without. There will therefor be NO iridium messages on this site and no messages whatever before we arrive Falmouth, England, hopefully the 27th or 28th of June.

We are leaving on a good weather forecast with no heavy winds in sight for the next week, with a stable high pressure over the Azores. We are expecting light winds and will probably use the engine to make as fast as possible passage. We will not receive eatherforecast on our satelitte phone, but are able to download weatherfax on our PC and listen to weatherforecast from England when we approach.