Liking the colour co-ordination (important things😉). 
Looks like you’re still smiling, nice one ☺️ x

Well what an adventure for Anthony, Ian Mike & Chris. Longest passage for 3 of the crew by quite a way.  Flew back to A Coruna to get the boat prepped for a week at sea.  Motoring round Cape Finistère on Day 1 was a little unnerving as we kept a watching eye out for the dreaded rudder-eating orca.  Once we started to head further offshore towards Madeira the risk subsided and we settled into our watch system; paired up on 4 hour overlapping watches during the hours of darkness then just one person designated on watch during the day.  We had periods of no wind but when it blew we had nothing too extreme, peaking at around 25 knots.  Plenty of time to try out some of my new sails from Crusader Sails in Poole - delighted with their performance thus far.  
We were accompanied by pods of dolphins a few times; fascinated by the bio-luminescence glittering in our wake at night and marvelled at the stars and the Milky Way, cross-crossed with the occasional satellite, shooting star and plane.  We were passed by the odd ship heading up and down the coast and then crossed by those heading between the Med and the Americas.  Our fishing exploits were successful in that we hooked a fish, yet unsuccessful in that by the time we pulled it on board some other marine creature had eaten it for supper.
The weary crew finally sighted Porto Santo and Madeira about 15 hours before we finally arrived into Funchal and some well-earned downtime.

A Coruna, Spain to Funchal, Madeira

Crew: 2

Crew Logs

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