Waters New

Sat May 17 1425 3222N 6433W Light winds ENE Seas 4 feet slow rollers Motorsailing at 6kts Sunny

After a few days' rest and some fun in Bermuda, off we go to the Azores, which are not called the AAAZOORES but are known at least by the locals as The Asoarees, with a short "A" and a pronounced third syllable. I know because Carlos Rego, the fruit and veg man who helped us with the final provisioning at the little St George's grocery store, he comes from Sao Miguel.

These are new waters for us: about 1,900nm to Horta, and we are looking at lightish winds today but hope to catch up with some North Westerlies tomorrow, on which we will try to sail ENE a little higher than the rhumb line. All is in good shape on Adventuress, including the crew. We have about 22 pounds of cleaned Wahoo in the freezer, about half of which we purchased from the fishermen Fred and Wesley whose dock is 50 feet in front of ours on the Town Docks: and the other half we were given, a happy if quite long story. So tonight we will eat the two pounds which we did not freeze, possibly with an Apricot and Lemon sauce? - depends on the whim of the cook.

From these updates our friend and sailor John Parker is recording our positions on Google Earth; and we are also sending positions via "Spot".

We fired up the Satphone this morning and made a test call to our weather man Chris Parker: that worked well and so if we cannot get through to him or to weather charts on our SSB radio, we can get a forecast from him on the Satphone.

Best to all, John and Nancy, with Bob and Dave