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This week’s podcast episode about choices
This week’s Tropical Dawn podcast episode is all about choices, the ones we’ve made and those we constantly make as sailers.
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New episode of our podcast
This week we talk about dragging anchor and almost losing our dinghy. It’s aptly named “calamities/staying put”. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dimitri31801/episodes/2023-03-10T03_00_00-08_00
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Dragging anchor… Kay’s version
Everything Dimi said in his post + we had to laugh afterwards when we talked about it. We are super efficient at jumping into action and taking the needed steps however sometimes there is a ‘communication breakdown’. That is we loose our shit. One of us will say something and the other will get hysterical,…
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We dragged anchor
I guess it was just a matter of time before it happened: dragging anchor. Probably the biggest worry in cruising, because of the likelihood of it happening and the associated risks: your boat (which is also your home) ending on the rocks, and possibly crashing into other boats much more expensive than your own. We…
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Podcast episode about Walvis Bay
This week’s episode of our Tropical Dawn podcast is about Walvis Bay and our road trip trough Namibia.
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Morning routine (or lack there of)
There’s a fine line between enjoying cruising life, getting necessary boat work done, and good old procrastination.
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Running the engine to charge battery
We’ve needed to run our engine yesterday evening and this morning while at anchor here at Walvis Bay to top up our battery bank.
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(Mind) Lost at sea
On the 22 December 2022 we left Hout Bay, South Africa for our first Atlantic Crossing to Saint Helena Island and then to Brazil. For the first few days we had a good weather window – nature was being kind to us. We hardly ate as it didn’t seem to be a priority and we…
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Walvis Bay
We ended up in Walvis Bay, Namibia after our second attempt at reaching St Helena failed. Our backstay broke about two and a half days sailing from Luderitz towards St Helena, I’ll write another post about that. So we had to come here to fix the broken backstay as well as the kicker attachement to…
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Exploring the world under sail
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