Today I've sold our satellite phone to the crew on S/Y Wind. Six friends from Gothenburg are doing the same trip as we did on a 47 foot yacht. They have a blog in Swedish which you find here: www.latalatituder.se As a good luck gift I've given them our fishing hook, let's see if they can beet our 1.05 meter long Dorado. Fair winds to S/Y Wind who leaves next Wednesday!
/The Captain (the Atlantic movie 2 will soon be uploaded)

First Mate who is missing the sailing life extremely much would just like to wish you all a very nice weekend! Since we arrived home in Sweden my life has been very busy, my life has been far, far away from the sailing manjaña manjaña life I have lived this very last year. However, even though I miss the sailing life very much I wont complain, I do love the busy life at home too! Promise more updates when I have the opportunity! Over and Out! /First Mate Sofia

PS, If you would like to look at a picture of the three very happy sailors who won a prize in The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers for "very good accounts of life at sea", click here.

My planed feminist anchor tattoo never happened. To some peoples delight I decided against it in the end. When the tattoo drawer in Falmouth made a worse drawing than my 3-minutes sketch, and he took at least fifteen minutes to do it, my resolution disappeared. I'll save it until I've rounded Cape Horn or sailed around the world and for now I'm satisfied with my own homemade pendants, they turned out quite nice. / The Captain

This morning we could dream ourselves back to the sailing adventure with an article in the local newspaper HD, "Har vi seglat med den här till Västindien?"

You fing the article here: http://hd.se/angelholm/2010/07/31/langseglare-tillfalligt-i-hamn

Enjoy! /First Mate Sofia

Some of the things that we bought especially for this trip is now on sale. If you’re interested send me an email, mariaingerup@hotmail.com, and I will tell you more about the them.

* Satellite phone Motorola 9555 with external antenna
* DuoGen-2 (water/wind generator) with service kit
* Watermaker Pur PowerSurviver 40E (5 liters/5 amps/hour)
* Zodiac 4 persons liferaft, coastal (found it floating outside England, no serial number)

* Navionics charts on SD-card
1 x Caribbean + Bermuda
1 x Europe + Cape Verde, Canaries, Azores

Pilot books
* Shell Channel guide
* Cuba
* Cruising Almanac 2009-2010 tidetables 2010

* Cruisers guide to fishing

* Paper charts northeast Cuba reaches to Varadero