We Made It To Horta!

We made it this far! We have docked our floating salt lick named Remedios at Horta, on Faial, in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal way out in the ocean. We are about 2100 miles from New York and about 800 from Portugal. We left New York at 11 AM on Jul 11 and landed in Horta at 11 AM Jul 28. We made about 125 miles per day at about 5 miles per hour. Slowest speed was maybe 4 and top was a storm assisted 8. Boy, does land ever feel good!


We are really in awe of the fact that us three Midwestern boys, who grew up paddling canoes and later learned to sail on small boats on Minnesota lakes, have managed to reach this dream destination – an outpost for sailors since the 1400s. All three of us grew up reading stories about the explorers  on the ocean who saw volcanic islands rise up out of the misty dawn and this morning it was us – an indescribable moment. It takes a lot of work, and the ability to weather all kinds of weather and life storms, but dreams can come true.

We will post some more photos and videos but first, Rob says there is a bar somewhere that he wants to visit. I hope it isn’t too far since none of us can walk more than 15 feet anymore and we can’t walk at all without a handhold. I suspect the folks here are used to seeing sailors walk funny – I hope so…