Leaving Dassen Island

Early morning and the wind has dropped, there were 9 other yachts there plus 8 fishing boats. Very peaceful.

Supper at Dassen Island

Wow what a great spread for dinner, cooked crayfish tails with Mayo sauce. The cut toe was worth it!!

First medical emergency on the boat! Glenn cut his toe by standing on the vernier! Not an easy place to bandage but masking tape did the trick.

Dassen Island

We are sleeping at Dassen Island tonight. We had an easy journey of 5 hours to get here. Rob and Glenn went off to drop the Crayfish nets and were soon back with our quota for supper. Here he is measuring them. Abit windy, but it should drop later.

Waiting

"Sea Wolff" on the right, in her new mooring at the Cape Grace Marina.
The yacht on the left is the same make of yacht that will be travelling with us in Feb 2010.
The 7 m SSB radio arial goes on soon, thats going to look strange. A normal yacht would have this arial in the mast but as we dont have a mast we need to put up a huge arial. This will enable us to get weather reports and send basic emails while crossing the Atlantic.

dolphins on the bow

We had the amazing experience today of sailing with Dolphins. They swam around the boat and seemed to love being just infront of us. Sadly the sun was not out but the water was beautifully clear. They stayed with us for about 30 minutes, a real treat. We were just off Camps Bay , Cape Town. They are the Long-Beaked Common Dolphins.