12:00 21/04/15 Dominic & William arrived at last 2 days late having been
put up in Hotels by Royal Air Maroc in London and in Cassablanca.
Dominics luggage not with him but phoned airport next morning and it was
there all the time. So after a further day in Praia to check emails and
do some last provisioning from the supermarket we left our anchorage at
19.30 lastnight and arrived in Porto da Furna on Brava this morning at
around 9am. After initial pleasant breeze and flat sea we had to motor
for 3 hours in lumpy sea to get away from the shadow of Santiago and
then another3 hours in the shadow of Fogo followed by headwinds between
Fogo & Brava. In between a good beam reach. in 20-25 knots. Dominic
suffering 1st sail stomach -mine not too bad after several days at
anchor and William not affected by sea sickness at all. Praia was
interesting, lively, quite affluent in the centre (plato). Next time if
I come across George or his replacement I won't be paying him much to do
very little and definately won't lend him my snorkle mask which he vever
returned claiming that the boys had pinched it. William felt sorry for
him and no doubt as a drug addicted homeless young man he has little
prospects other than the take as much as possible from the occasional
yacht. For the whole stay in Praia ours was the only yacht in the bay so
his pickings are undoubtedly meagre. We followed Don Streets guide for
the entry to Porto da Furna and as he predicted someone ashore directed
our anchorage and beconed for a line ashore. Managed to get the line
round the prop almost immediately so after clearing that William managed
to row a line across and now we are secure between anchor and shore
line. Now after recovery nap from the overnight torture, a trip ashore
in the offing to explore Brava- hopefuly a minibus up to the main town,
Nova Sintra.