We arrived in Mindelo, one of the bigger towns in the Cape Verde, on Saturday. After being anchored in the bay outside the marina for a couple of days, we moved into the marina yesterday in order to repair our standing rigging (we discovered a broken wire strand in one of the lower shrouds, so some of our standing rigging needs replacement). Mindelo’s got a bad reputation for crime, etc., but at first sight it seems like a pleasant little town – we always prefer not to listen to rumours, but to check ourselves 
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