That’s when we came to full realisation of our mistake. We should have made landfall on the most Eastern island of the archipelago, Sal.

Logbook extract for the sailing trip from Canary Islands, Spain to Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde  849 nautical miles in 152 hours

We kept the two sails poled for a short while and until after sunset when the wind decided to pick up more than we felt comfortable with

This was it we were going to sail upwind to the Canaries when most people sail downwid to get there!

Logbook extract for the sailing trip from Madeira, Portugal to La Graciosa, Canary Islands, Spain 272 nautical miles in 46 hours

We start getting closer to Madeira, the winds start pressing blowing close to 20 knots true wind, and we pick up a bit more speed 7/8 knots

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Cascais, Portugal to Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal 486 nautical miles in 79 hours

The PredictWind routing weather forecast did tell us the previous days that we should have tracked north to try and keep with the winds