Boat services in Cape Verde

[GHA]

So what have I forgotten?? Leaving first world to dirt track & donkeys for possibly a fair while. Pretty good shape I reckon but there's always something..
Last bit shopping-
Bag of cobalt pilot bits. 5mm up on a good day I can sharpen but 3mm bits? Not a chance..
Some fresh epoxy paint. And epoxy paste, really handy that stuff.
Another 30m of 3mm dyneema which is only €0.80 per metre up in Las Palmas. Will get used along the way, so handy.
Maybe trip up to Leroy Merlin to stock up with couple lengths 4/5/6mm studding & some more nuts so make your own bolts.
What else....

Latest Florence interesting, sound familiar to any of you world girdlers?
Steel's a pain to get on top of but once sorted a whole world of pain just won't be coming your way, most of their list just won't happen with no holes in the boat & everything welded on. Had same problem under the windlass, now big plate of stainless welded in. Even dropped the mast & welded a plate on with mounting studs up in Portugal. No drips there.

Anything you guys would change after an ocean or 2?

 

[Sea Change]

What else....

Wine, olive oil, pesto

 

[Roberto]

So what have I forgotten??

As friends/then circumnavigators from Minnieb pointed out, "once you leave the Canaries to S/W you are out of olive oil land "
Maybe Sal island, huge Italian community they planted basil and eggplants, may have olive oil as well

 

[GHA]

As friends/then circumnavigators from Minnieb pointed out, "once you leave the Canaries to S/W you are out of olive oil land "
Maybe Sal island, huge Italian community they planted basil and eggplants, may have olive oil as well

The price of the stuff now it's rationed for salads these days
Still got a load of litres from a co-op up in the hills in the Algarve. Delicious, pressed the day before from olives off straight off the tree. ❤


Interesting though, think these days I seem to just eat what they eat. Still remember a year long "the great peanut butter famine"
Acetone came up on another thread, stash a few bottles of that in the gas locker.

 

[geem]

We got two 4kg Calor bottles filled for €10. Only problem is that, despite walking past the buildings with the blue tanks to visit the place with the orange tanks, and despite specifically asking for propane in my orange bottle, the man in the orange boiler suit sold me butane. I only found out when I got the receipt.

It might actually work, but seeing as we last changed gas bottle in April I haven't needed to find out yet.

We have had bottles filled with both propane and butane over the years. Never noticed much difference

 

[GHA]

We have had bottles filled with both propane and butane over the years. Never noticed much difference

You've probably had a mix as well, had that in the Caribbean before. I did a test a while ago with an annex M propane/butane regulator which outputs 30mB.
1Kg of water in a kettle, there was 15 seconds difference between butane & propane.
And very happy with 2 x homebase GRP bottles (nice to see how much gas there is in there) , cheap way to get some bottles if you forget to take them back.....
Used to be even in the Canaries the bottles would be different on different islands, no such problems anymore for a long time.
Las Palmas let me take a full bottle away & bring back an hour later empty a couple times.
€19 for 13Kg. 907's about €18 each so kit will pay for itself quickly. Means you can decant from 907`s as well if that's all there is.
Now 2 full homebase bottles & filled up a 907 so should be good for nearly a year.



Had to remove a tiny little non return valve on the fitting to put gas into the bottle.

 

[geem]

You've probably had a mix as well, had that in the Caribbean before. I did a test a while ago with an annex M propane/butane regulator which outputs 30mB.
1Kg of water in a kettle, there was 15 seconds difference between butane & propane.
And very happy with 2 x homebase GRP bottles (nice to see how much gas there is in there) , cheap way to get some bottles if you forget to take them back.....
Used to be even in the Canaries the bottles would be different on different islands, no such problems anymore for a long time.
Las Palmas let me take a full bottle away & bring back an hour later empty a couple times.
€19 for 13Kg. 907's about €18 each so kit will pay for itself quickly. Means you can decant from 907`s as well if that's all there is.
Now 2 full homebase bottles & filled up a 907 so should be good for nearly a year.

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Had to remove a tiny little non return valve on the fitting to put gas into the bottle.

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In our pre- induction hob days we set ourselves up with two camping gas blue bottles and a pair of grp bottles. One is a Safefill 8kg and the other an American 18lb grp. We have fill pipe to go between the Yank and British valves.
We last filled up in Grenada last summer. We are still on the same bottle.
Induction hob has taken over.

 

[GHA]

In our pre- induction hob days we set ourselves up with two camping gas blue bottles and a pair of grp bottles. One is a Safefill 8kg and the other an American 18lb grp. We have fill pipe to go between the Yank and British valves.
We last filled up in Grenada last summer. We are still on the same bottle.
Induction hob has taken over.

Nice if you have room for a load of solar
Did actually eye up an induction hub & think of more solar but gas is so cheap just no point really.

 

[geem]

Nice if you have room for a load of solar
Did actually eye up an induction hub & think of more solar but gas is so cheap just no point really.

Well. With some cheap solar, you don't get a cabin smelling of gas. In a hot spot like where you are heading for, the cabin stays a lot cooler without gas cooking. You don't need to try and find gas in far flung places. No hassle trying to find somewhere that can fill your particular regulator.
We still use gas on passage so we will being using it to cross the pond in May. We have enough gas onboard to get us home. When we set off again next year, we will have enough gas to get us back to the Caribbean without needing refills. At anchor a few flexible panels sewn to a canvas allow us to add to our fixed panels and boost our solar output. The gas oven is the only thing using gas these days at anchor.

 

[GHA]

Well. With some cheap solar, you don't get a cabin smelling of gas. In a hot spot like where you are heading for, the cabin stays a lot cooler without gas cooking. You don't need to try and find gas in far flung places. No hassle trying to find somewhere that can fill your particular regulator.
We still use gas on passage so we will being using it to cross the pond in May. We have enough gas onboard to get us home. When we set off again next year, we will have enough gas to get us back to the Caribbean without needing refills. At anchor a few flexible panels sewn to a canvas allow us to add to our fixed panels and boost our solar output. The gas oven is the only thing using gas these days at anchor.

Been out & about in the anchorages for quite a while now so know pretty well how it all works. No point refuting any of that, it's just opinions. Same as mine.

 

[Sea Change]

In our pre- induction hob days we set ourselves up with two camping gas blue bottles and a pair of grp bottles. One is a Safefill 8kg and the other an American 18lb grp. We have fill pipe to go between the Yank and British valves.
We last filled up in Grenada last summer. We are still on the same bottle.
Induction hob has taken over.

When our Calor ran out we switched to 907s, which are quite expensive. Fortunately we also installed the induction hob around the same time.
Last time we changed a gas bottle was April. Solar power is a wonderful thing!