not the last post...Tenho's adventures from Azores to Chesapeake

The blog of the Mighty Tenho is not yet dead!  The blog about our trip would be incomplete if I failed to include John’s experiences on the way from the Azores to the Chesapeake.  Plus, I really miss writing.  This particular story starts in February 2013.  The crew of a 48 foot Swan sailboat abandoned ship after battling storms between Newport and Bermuda.  The sailboat, Wolfhound, had been left adrift in the Atlantic.  In the months before John was to make his own crossing back from the Azores to the Chesapeake in June 2014, he would tell the kids the story of Wolfhound, still drifting around in the Atlantic, and with a crazy look in his eyes, he would tell Maggie that he was going to find Wolfhound on his way home and bring it back for her.  Months later, I was with the kids in Wisconsin while John and my brothers-in-law sailed Tenho from the Azores to the Chesapeake, when I got an e-mail via single side band radio from John “WE FOUND WOLFHOUND!”  You’ve never heard such whooping and hollering!  It was too far and too full of water to bring home to Maggie, but what an incredible high when they realized what they’d found.  

And in another great surprise, John and my brothers-in-law came home with a dozen jars of canned marlin.  They'd hooked into one during the trip from the Azores to the Chesapeake, which provided a nice change in diet and extra fish for canning.

Wolfhound, abandoned at sea February 2013

Marlin for dinner.  And breakfast and lunch...