With Tony Soares in Ponta Delgada



Getting ready for Race 1 of the Atlantis Cup from Santa Maria to Ponta Delgada. We've had a lovely few days in Santa Maria...complete with lots of good food....some boat prep....a few practice sessions...and  even a bull fight and a pig roast!

In Tereceira

On the Island of Terceira today. We arrived at 2:30am after sailing 94 miles from Ponta Delgada. Nice downwind ride. We had a really nice time in Ponta Delgada with the Farias Family. Also met up with Tony Soares from Inner Bay who gave us a personalized tour of the city. We picked up two more crew members in Ponta Delgada (Helio and Sylvia). They're participating in the regatta and there boat developed a leak so they were not going to go beyond Ponta Delgada. We inviting them to hitch a ride with us to Terceira so here they are.

Marco!

 

Visit with Marco Dutra, our single side band radio link in Faial. We communicated with Marco everyday at 2200 UTC. He gave us weather information as well as news from Faial and relayed information to family back home via email. Every day we looked forward to speaking with him.
All aboard are very appreciative of the service he provided....Thank you Marco and Claudia!

Dinner Parade

Dinner at Canto Da Doca

Dinner at Clube Naval Da Horta

Lunch with Jose Carlos and Bella and Joao

 Lunch at Arvore

Dinner with Maria and Zezinha

Burgee Exchange

Exchanging burgees with Jose Azevedo, owner of Peter's Café Sport.

We all got some exercise yesterday in a hike around the "Caldeira". An 8km hike around the crater of a 730,000  year old volcano crater in the center of Faial. The views from the top are spectacular and the site looking into the crater is mesmerizing...awesome....like into thru the pages of a National Geographic Magazine...except it's real!

All looking forward to  a reception dinner at the Yacht Club (CNH) tonight.

Cheers