Faial is one of the 9 islands in the Azores chain. It sits about 1700 KM from Lisbon and about 2400 KM from New York City. The main city on the island, Horta, has a protected harbor which, together with its location, makes it a great stopover for vessals making a transatlantic crossing.
Mariners are known for being a superstitious lot, and there is a strongly held superstition that if you stop in Horta, you need to leave behind some art on the dock to assure safe passage the rest of the way. There’s the story of the “Ariadne”, a ship which wintered in Horta in 1967 but neither captain nor crew left any art behind. After they left harbor to continue their journey west, they were never heard from again.
Those who left art, all before the hint, were:
- hhgygy
- Graham Hedley
- Paul Voestermans
- Martin de Bock
- Kent Pearson
- Ashwini Agrawal
- Turriant
- Garfield
- Eloy Cano
- Angie CF
- bernd
- Phil Ower
- Lighthouse
- Bas van Limpt
This concludes the 880s! I guess Andrew and I made it too easy, because we have 7 players with perfect scores: hhgygy, Paul Voestermans, Martin de Bock, Garfield, Eloy Cano, Angie CF, Phil Ower, and Lighthouse. Congrats!
Actually, there were 8 perfect scores, Angie CF is missing from the list as far as I can see