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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 63 | Tis The Season To Be Jolly In Mindelo
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 63 | Tis The Season To Be Jolly In Mindelo

It's Holiday Season in Mindelo. Everyone is up for fiestas around town and on Galopin. This is also a special Cape Verde music episode. Lots of great live music from clubs to big a stage in the centre of Mindelo. You'll discover some of Cape Verde's bigges...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 62 | Holiday Pig Fest Like No Other | Chuk
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 62 | Holiday Pig Fest Like No Other | Chuk

Brace yourselves for this. It's not for the weak of heart or vegetarians. We have a Holiday experience like no other called a Chuk. It's the Holiday Season in Mindelo and is similar as in Europe or America. Crowded shopping, decorations and Christmas music...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 61 | Hard Atlantic Sailing Due Northwest
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 61 | Hard Atlantic Sailing Due Northwest

Sailing around the Cape Verde Archipelago is tough. The Atlantic doesn't let you down. We had waited for the best weather window to sail back from Santiago Island to Sao Vicente Island. About 150 nautical miles passage. The forecast was 15 to 20 knots on t...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 60 | The City, The People And The Ocean
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 60 | The City, The People And The Ocean

Being out in the middle of the ocean is a very lonely place, and being in the middle of the city is quite the opposite. Nat and I are with a few very special people in Praia. Namely Manu, a Cape Verdean native who lives in Marseille France, and in Praia. H...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 59 | Anchoring Woes & The Big City
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 59 | Anchoring Woes & The Big City

Anchoring is always a different challenge. Conditions always vary, especially in Cape Verde. And in this case Tarrafal do Santiago. There was swell and many rocks below the surface and not much sand for the anchor to stick. But we managed, and thanks to a ...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 58 | Go Down And Sail South
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 58 | Go Down And Sail South

It’s time we sail South! Me, Nat and friend Carlos set off to Santiago island, about 140 nautical miles from Mindelo Bay. We also say good by to our friends aboard Arka Kinari, who will make the passage across the Atlantic. For us, it’s typical Cape Ve...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 57 | I Lost My Boat
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 57 | I Lost My Boat

It's something that can happen to any sailor. This is the story of Jurgen, German solo sailor who left his boat at anchor for a couple of hours only to come back and find his boat had disappeared. A few moments later he received a call and was told his boa...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 56 | Where ARC Sailors Come & Go | Atlantic Rally for Cruisers Special
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 56 | Where ARC Sailors Come & Go | Atlantic Rally for Cruisers Special

About 6000 cruisers cross the Atlantic Ocean each year. And many of them stop in Cape Verde before the long passage across the ocean. For centuries ships have stopped in Mindelo Bay to stock on supplies, fuel and goods. And today it's also where ARC sailor...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 55 | Sailors In Need Come To Mindelo Indeed | Alex Thompson Hugo Boss
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 55 | Sailors In Need Come To Mindelo Indeed | Alex Thompson Hugo Boss

Alex Thompson and his Hugo Boss sailboat is in the house. Here in Cape Verde, sailors in need come to Mindelo indeed. Having hit something during the Jacques Favre Transat race, the Hugo Boss vessel lost its keel and Alex Thompson was forced to abandon th...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 54 | Best Day & Night Spots In Mindelo
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 54 | Best Day & Night Spots In Mindelo

It's been a full year since I first landed here in Mindelo, Cape Verde. And it's taken me this long to discover some of the best spots and most interesting people. It's also Natacha's one year anniversary, and she makes a splashing comeback. While she was ...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 53 | Maktub & Galopin In Cabo Verde
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 53 | Maktub & Galopin In Cabo Verde

Me and the crew of Maktub continue our journey south along the coast of Santa Antao to Tarrafal. While Eduardo and his crew, Marina and Irene, explore the lush valley above the town, I take a stroll and discover that the town is undergoing big changes yet ...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 52 | The Amazing Maktub Whale Project
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 52 | The Amazing Maktub Whale Project

I recently met Eduardo who makes up the amazing whale research project in Mindelo, Cape Verde. Since then he's done a survey of locations at all the islands of Cape Verde where there is cetacean activity. We met again later in Mindelo and he showed me some...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 51 | Back Into The Mighty Atlantic
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 51 | Back Into The Mighty Atlantic

Our tour of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde is almost over. We have one more day to discover more friends and family in Sao Nicolau island. Then we make the passage from Sao Nicolau to Sao Vicente. It's back into the mighty Atlantic, and you feel it's...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 50 | The Wonder That Is Sao Nicolau
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 50 | The Wonder That Is Sao Nicolau

This island is really something. Me and Nat had come here a few months ago, but did not visit the interior of the island because there was the "Bruma Seca". The Dry Fog. It's when the air is heavy with Sahara sand and the visibility is none. But this time ...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 49 | Being So Remote Yet So Familiar
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 49 | Being So Remote Yet So Familiar

Me and Peixe visit a tiny little town called Carrical on the island of Sao Nicolau. Peixe has family in many parts of this island. It's why we're being so remote yet so familiar. I get a real taste of rural Cape Verde. This little town once was thriving wi...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 48 | Cape Verde’s Little Sahara Desert
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 48 | Cape Verde’s Little Sahara Desert

Each island of Cape Verde has it's own identity. Boavista Island is the "Desert Island". Its golden white sand beaches was flown over from the Sahara desert by winds of thousands years. And there, on the West side of the island is Cape Verde's little deser...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 47 | Sailing Cape Verde In Full Color
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 47 | Sailing Cape Verde In Full Color

Ever see a sailboat sailing under spinnaker in Cape Verde? This is a rare sight. But we did it. Conditions were just right for us to be sailing Cape Verde in full color from Sal Island to Boavista Island, about 40 nautical miles. We were joined by dolphins...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 46 | Here They Fix Your Busted Part
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 46 | Here They Fix Your Busted Part

I noticed that part of my boom was in bad shape, broken. But Ricardo knew someone whom he was certain could fix my part. That's right, here they fix your busted part rather than replace. It's the African way, as opposed to what we're used to in the industr...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 45 |  Sailing With Cops On A Catamaran
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 45 | Sailing With Cops On A Catamaran

That's right! Three of us delinquents went sailing with cops on a catamaran. Deb and Phil bought their catamaran and have been getting ready to sail up to the Canaries for several months. They invited us to go sail with them and check things out. And they ...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 44 | All Systems Go… Or Not
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 44 | All Systems Go… Or Not

The best part of sailing is that you can go anytime. Or can you? After a fun outing with Peixe and family, where young Nelson shows off his captain and dancing skills, we decide to sail to Boavista Island. It's all systems go... or not. We are stopped shor...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 43 | We Did Africa’s Woodstock Festival
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 43 | We Did Africa’s Woodstock Festival

Adventures in the company of Canadians Dave & Pete continue. We get a flat in the middle of nowhere and manage to get a lift of Cape Verde manpower. What luck. Then we go to what some call Africa's Woodstock. A massive outdoor music festival that is mi...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 42 | It All Started With Two Canadians
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 42 | It All Started With Two Canadians

When a story starts this way, it's gonna be a pretty good one. I'm Back on Galopin and sort my things for life aboard again. My Swiss friends Jean tries to get out to sea, will he? Then we go to one of the best Block Parties ever. And the Canadians Dave an...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 41 | Landlocked And Now Back To The Island
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 41 | Landlocked And Now Back To The Island

My visit in Switzerland is not over. There is more food follies and festival fun to eat up. La Fête des Vignerons, a festival that happens every 20 years cant be summed up in one episode. You'll go backstage and meet star cows getting milked. A nighttime ...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 40 | In The Land Of Good & Plenty | Swiss Gastronomy & Fête des Vignerons
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Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 40 | In The Land Of Good & Plenty | Swiss Gastronomy & Fête des Vignerons

You don't know what you have until you don't have it. In my case it was food. Not that Cape Verde doesn't have enough food, they just have less variety. After living nearly a year in Cape Verde I flew back to my home country Switzerland. And from the plane...
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