Friday, August 10, 2012

Arrived in Lisbon, Portugal

We did it!  Finally reached the other side of the Atlantic.  3,400 miles from Annapolis, Maryland, to Lisbon, Portugal, in about 26 days of sailing (2 months total, including the stops in Bermuda, Azores and a 2-week trip back home).   The last leg from the Azores to Lisbon was a rocket ship ride for the first few days and then a flat calm day of motoring.   Caught and ate delicious skipjack and albacore tuna for dinner, but the highlight was hooking a big marlin and watching it leap and flip through the air.  Too bad it got away...would have been quite an adventure getting that thing on board! 

Most memorable moment was flying along at 9+ knots at night, pitch black overcast and moonless night outside and no way to see where ocean turned into sky...felt like we were hurtling through outer space. And as our burly little space capsule charged over the waves in the middle of nowhere...inside I was snuggled up with my kids, watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on the  computer.  Rather surreal.

Hard to believe they're still smiling after two months on the road
with just the family for company.  Let's hope they remember these
days when they're teenagers!



Dophins racing alongside the boat














Skipjack tuna for dinner

2 comments:

  1. From Jack:
    Good catch Hugo!
    And, how could such a big fish get away when it's mouth was probably bleeding?
    Maggie, how come it looks like you are shopping on the computer? What are you looking at? Do you have an internet signal at sea?? Do you have a giant dish on top of the mast??
    Been climbing and trapezing off the mast yet? I had a lot of fun doing that with you!
    Have fun, I miss you!

    Jack

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  2. Tessa, we need a few pictures of you:) How long is your hair now??

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