Leaving today !

Today, Wed Aug 4, we leave Horta to cross the last of the ocean. One of the traditions in Horta is to paint your boat name and logo on the sea wall. Rob did this for us and it will bring us good luck, Rob assures us.

Here is a short video of the seawall and the thousands of paintings done over the years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uvrirkHTvA

We have updated our itinerary page and are now planning to skip France  ;-(

We never did hear back from Dufour on our factory visit plans. In addition, the input we got from lots of sailors is that we were adding two pretty big legs to our trip in going to La Rochelle and back. There aren't many other sailing ports along that section of France and their advice was strongly in favor of skipping France and spending more time on the Portuguese coast.

So we will head to the Portuguese mainland and aim for some spots north of Lisbon. We will report back in as we go!