Day 5 and landfall Santa Maria

The south coast of Santa Maria with the lights of Vila do Porto ahead.

I didn't find the rolling conducive to sleep but did get some and we swapped round just after midnight. Our GPS was predicting arrival around 0500 BST when it would stll be dark so I rolled in some more genoa to slow us down a bit.

As at 0400 we have at ETA for 0700 BST by which time it will be light. Officialdom will not be up then and so the plan is to moor up on the reception pontoon to await further instructions. We think we will have to go for tests and then wait for results. No doubt there willl be forms to complete too.

It's 0705 and we have approximately 30 more minutes to go!