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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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Winded Voyage 4 | Episode 39 | Good Times & Bad Times In Mindelo
Living aboard is a not always the dream life. Your boat is vulnerable to a whole lot of potential hazards. Which was the case one night here in Mindelo Bay, Cape Verde. But overall, the good times here are also abundant and weigh out the challenging moment...