Author: Dimitri
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6. Choices
In this week’s episode of our Tropical Dawn Podcast we talk about choices. We have been thinking about the choice wether to continue our sailing journey across the South Atlantic towards Brazil and the Caribbean or to have a break from cruising and return to South Africa to see friends and family and to go…
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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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5. Calamities – Staying put
The past week was quite eventful: we dragged anchor, we had to drop our anchor and retrieve it the next day, we went on an excursion on the dinghy and almost lost the dinghy, and we got a rope caught in the dinghy’s prop. But we made it trough all that and are fine, and…
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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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4. Walvis Bay
This week’s episode of our Tropical Dawn podcast will be about Walvis Bay in Namibia, where we currently still are at anchor and have been for over a month as well as about the road trip we did throughout 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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Andries/Eiitango Jetango (episode 3 bonus)
Here is the full recording of the conversation we had with Andries/Eiitango Jetango, we had to edit it a bit because the Lüderitz episode of our podcast was getting to long.
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