Presque prêt pour le départ...

Not a lot left to be done on H2 atthis time and we are almost finished getting ready for a new crossing with ARC. We plan to leave France around 20th of septembre and planning to reach Las Palmas on Oct 20th. In 2011 we left the 04th of Octobre and reached Las Palmas the 204th. Part of it was a 1 week stop in A Corugna ti fix some electrical issues we should not have this year. The ARC will leave LP for Cape Verde Novenbre the 10th but the ARC office open the 05 and we will try to be there at that time even if travelling back to France for a few days may be necessary to ensure everything is OK on this side before the crossing. We expect to be 4 on board, all french I am afraid as the experience with a french and english crew earlier this month proved disastrous: here too we were 4 with an americain lady not speaking french at all and it has been very difficult for everybody. Unfortunately, one of the french guy can't do it and Ed, our american crew mate won't join because of this bad experience. Hence we have to find 2 new french speaking crews in a very short period of time.

Then the plan is;


20/09 Leave France to LP via Cascais and Madera
20/10 Arrival in Las Palmas
10/11 ARC starts from LP
15/11 Arrival in Mindelo (Cape Verde)
20/11 ARC restarts from Mindelo to Ste Lucia
02/12 Arrival in Ste Lucia (between 02 and 05/12.

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