Passage: Seychelles to Madagascar 🇸🇨 —> 🇲🇬

Green Coco Sailing

This was our first time properly sailing Nesi! Wow, what a great sailing vessel!!! Smooth like buttah (for the most part). Leaving Seychelles we were surrounded by squalls with torrential downpours, needed to motor to get out of the doldrums, then by day 2 we were in the trades, cruising along with sunny skies. As we neared Madagascar the winds intensified upwards of 30knots, tight on the nose. We decided not to do any stops along the way as the weather was quite unstable with conflicting weather models. Grateful to have arrived safely and swiftly, sheltered in the beautiful northern Madagascar before the strong winds filled in. We did the crossing with a lovely family from Australia who are trying to get as much blue water experience before their custom boat splashes… we had 3 toddlers all aged 4 aboard, and 6 adults. Our reels kept us quite entertained with lots of hook ups. 2 large bill fish (one the line broke, and the other we were able to successfully unhook), a massive barracuda, and a double wahoo hook up! 🙌🤩🎣 we made loads of fresh loafs of bread 🥖 thanks to our new sourdough starter gifted to us before departure from our German friends. 🥰 Issues underway included windlass malfunction, many lures lost, water pipe that broke and drained the water tank, large wave knocking the dinghy loose from its support, misaligned rudders that needed to be aligned underway at night, and a propane leak at the top of the propane gauge. Overall, not bad for a difficult passage. Most importantly we all had a blast and we actually made it out of Seychelles with Nesi (and ALL our belongings!) - we were finally given our 8 boxes that had been held up in customs (the ones we shipped from Tahiti in January, as well as our 2 spearguns that got confiscated on arrival to Seychelles, on the day of our departed Seychelles… talk about a last minute departure gift 😜 On day 2 of our passage we got notice that our new solar panels had finally arrived and cleared into seychelles (only a couple days too late 🤪) grateful we were able to source some used panels to carry us thru for the time being… Looking forward to more adventures in Madagascar 🇲🇬🙌🤩

Boat & Crew

Nesi

Fountaine Pajot, Eleuthera60

Green Coco Sailing

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