Next was time for lunch with Tim, Max, Sarah, Gigi (Gerard a French sailor who arrived by boat and has decided to stay) and Adide in a fantastic locals café bar called Suzanna’s which you would never think to enter from the outside but served a fantastic lunch for 500 Escudos (£3.50) including wine.
Finally we returned to the boat to do a few more jobs whilst Tim finished his preparations and at 4pm we were joined by Max and Adide to wave him off and give a hand with his lines. Tim made a tricky departure in a breezy wind blowing him on to the pontoon look easy and departed.
Kevin then had another quick swim to clean the log before we were due over to Festina Lente for drinks and inevitably to give a hand to fix their computer! We had a tour of Nick’s lovely boat and had a couple of drinks to chat about their travels and our plans – although Kevin having bought Nick’s book and started reading it was able to steal his thunder of some of his stories much to the amusement of his crew! Kevin then managed to get things working on their SSB weather fax (or as much as we could tell with limited signal in this mountainous area), which was quite impressive having never used SSB before. They were very pleased with the result anyway and Marta cooked us all a lovely dinner with lots of fresh salad and vegetables, not an easy feat in the Cape Verdes. Next we had to play a game with dice to see who did the washing up, which unfortunately I lost, but Dave very valiantly stepped in!
Finally we returned to the boat about 10pm to let the Festina Lente crew get some rest before their early ferry to see Santo Antau the next morning and obviously to let us get some rest before our big passage the next day.
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