Marina Mindelo, Sao Vincente, Cape Verdes

Tuesday morning, Serena departed at about 08:00 having not quite finished their preparations the day before. Unfortunately we were a little sluggish from the night before and didn’t manage to see them off, but will hopefully make up for that in Grenada. We had a quiet day, managing to catch Alex for a Skype chat in the afternoon. We were also boarded by the Festina Lente crew, an English Discovery 55 which had just arrived and came to say Hi and find out about the local facilities. However, they had passed by this way three years earlier as part of the Blue Water rally when they had to call in for shelter after a hurricane warning on route from the Canaries across the Atlantic. Nick (owner) and crew Dave (one of the other Blue Water Rally skippers) and Marta (a Polish girl they met in Australia on the rally sailing a 28ft yacht around the world with one other female crew).


View of the marina

We had dinner in Casa Café then later joined the usual crowd in Club Nautico for leaving drinks for Tim.


Casa Cafe