Azores!

After 19 days at sea Kiwi reached Flores in Azores early this morning. The tiny harbor of Lajes was most welcoming and what we can tell (for actually being way too exhausted right now for any real exploration), Flores seems to be a charming small island with cliffs and waterfalls and more cows and goats than tourists.

The crossing went well, with winds between zero and forty knots from all kinds of directions. Rough seas broke the attachment for our kitchen stove we managed to have salt water leaking in to the drinking water tank (!) and had the dynamo of the engine falling off. These were minor challenges I realized meeting a fellow sailor here who crossed at the same time and lost part of his rigg, his roling furler and having a complete engine failure