Bilder Acores

Hi everyboy again !
Well after 9 1/2 days we arrived here in this nice town of Cherbourg in France. The wind was all the time from the half until aft but much stronger and with worse waves as expected. It was often blowing 5-6 bf, sometimes 7 anf in gusts even more. Nice fast sailing but very exhausting !! You don´t always feel good in the stomach...
But Denise did - she always sleept through the nights without trouble, even in the worst waves, waking up in the morning, happy, and ready to play with her tired parents.
The last days we had 2h watches, and so we were really happy to arrive safely here. Tomorrow Emilia, Alexandra and Patrik from Stenungsund will arrive for a week on board and we all are really looking forward to this !
Best regards to all of you,
The Sampocrew

Wall painting in Horta!

Hi!

It was really fun to make this painting on the wall in Horta! It makes you feel like a great artist for a day or so! And it is nice to walk around and see all the other paintings.

We also made a painting in Angra do Heroísmo, but as it was raining afterwards the sailing boat disappeared and we had to make a new one and we hope this one will stay there a bit longer!

Today we will begin the crossing to France, the sun is shining and we don't expect too much wind!

Bye for now!

Charlotte, Peter and Denise

We leave the Azores

From Horta we motorsailed 10 hours to Velas on Sao George were we stayed for four days in the small marina. We enjoied the quite little town with its very friendly habourmaster Joe . In the evenings after sundown the birdcolonie in the hills above the habour disturbed the quiteness for a few hours every evening with screams and weired sounds. There was the big island festival which started the day after we arrived, but most happenings, concerts and so on started first in the evenings after 22.30 or later, so we did not get a lot out of it. We saw a "bullfight" but it was more a sad thing were youths made a fool out of a young bull/kalv which could not really get hold with its hooves on the road.
On we sailed to Angra de Herismo on Terceira which so far is our favorite here in the Azores. A very nice old town with lots to explore, nice bars and restaurants and again very friendly people. We stayed here as well four days, and had a rental car today with which we visited the interior whith it´s caves, lakes vulcanoes and hydrogenaflowers everywere.
Tomorrow we will probably start to sail in direction France were we will get Emilia, Alexandra and Patrik as visitors for a week. We all are really looking forward to this !
Now we hope for good not too much wind for this last long sail for this trip. It is about 1300sm to Cherbourg in France or if we have to see land earlyer it is about 900sm to La Coruna in Spain.
We calculate an average of 100sm per day.
Best regards,
The Sampocrew