Our auto-helm has been released from the hospital! We installed it this afternoon and it is working like a champ! We are very excited to have Otto back with us. We plan to depart from Horta tomorrow (Thursday) morning for the next leg of the journey.
We plan to head into the Med and will try to stop in Gibraltar. We are not sure if that will work out, the last time we tried to stop it was all full. If it is full this time we will follow along the coast of Spain to another port. This leg should take us 10-11 days and I will try to post SPOT updates as we move. I'm unsure at this point how the radio e-mail (and posting) is going to work. At this point I have no reason to think it will improve but I hope it does.