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Namibia to St. Helena

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Thursday 19 th March, somewhere in the South Atlantic. One week out of Namibia and having a slow day in light winds but at least it's sunny and fairly warm. We're in a particularly quiet spot where we seem to be the only life forms – no shipping, no birds, no fish (I saw one shoal of flying fish two days ago), hardly any night-time bio-luminescence and even the moon is about to desert us. Still, no Covid-19! So we said our goodbyes to Lüderitz – had a last night at the yacht club with the crew of Tao 8 and a last night at the very warm, cosy and smoke-filled (from their fire, not cigarettes) Barrels for a final bit of gemütlicheit before we left.  Me outside the Lüderitz Yacht Club Our favourite supermarket, the food's ok. The bit ships get a bit close while they're turning - see Gráinne just at its stern. The departure paperwork was remarkably unremarkable but we did find a fish shop next door to the port office and couldn