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Atom departs Agadir, Morocco solo at 12:30 p.m. and sails 1,200 nautical miles nonstop to Mindelo, Cape Verde aboard his Pearson Triton.0:37 The first three days run fast — six-plus knots downwind wing on wing with a double-reefed main in strong northeast trades.4:09 Day four brings a transition: winds drop, go fluky, and force repeated sail changes, including shifting the whisker pole to the opposite side and briefly sailing a broad reach.4:46 Once past the Canary Islands through the six-and-a-half-mile strait between Fuerteventura and the African coast — where tidal currents run up to 2.5 knots — shipping traffic thins and the boat moves progressively offshore.3:26 At 900 miles out, roughly 290 miles remain; Atom targets a daylight arrival in Mindelo and plans to heave-to outside the harbor overnight if he misses it.11:24 The Monitor windvane steers throughout. On arrival, several maintenance issues surface: chafe on the furling jib, a broken plastic flange on the furler drum (repaired with stainless plates), a chafed jib halyard cut and re-spliced, a cracked Monitor windvane rudder latch caught and welded in Mindelo, and chafed whisker pole control lines.19:28 The passage takes approximately eight days.14:21

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