Ngahue IV - Another day on Ngahue IV

Today, Saturday, has been a generally very satisfying day. We had very useful and "sailable" wind until about dusk. As per our Grib files, the wind has now abated to about 6 knots from a southwesterly direction. Still enough to get us to the Cape Verde islands where we hope to pick up our trade winds tomorrow (late?) afternoon. Those trade winds have been very elusive so far, playing their manana, manana game for the last couple of days. They were always just in the next "weather box" (the ARC organisers have, for the purpose of their weather forecasts, divided the Atlantic into boxes for which they supply customised forecasts) and there for the next day. Quite frustrating. The Azores anticyclone seems to be on a walkabout and not where it should be!
Towards sundown, a school of dolfins came and visited the boat. Something we've never seen before, a smaller fish sucked to the dorsal fin of one of the dolfins and hitching a ride... Judging by the movements of our neighbouring boat Chantana, they've caught another fish for tea or dinner - we still have to decide to get out our tackle. That'll be for the trades...
So as the sun really goes down, best wishes from Laura and Marco aboard Ngahue IV.

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