Category: cruising life
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Big news!
Hi everyone, We have some big news to share. As you know, our sail from Saint Helena to Brazil was our most challenging yet, not because of the ocean or the weather but because we literally ran out of energy (first our batteries, then our bodies). As with all challenging experiences something beautiful came out…
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Moving podcast to blog
We’ve started moving all our podcast episodes to our blog (svtropicaldawn.blog) in an effort to save some money on podcast hosting. For now the podcast is still on Podomatic as well, but once all episodes are uploaded here we’ll test out publishing new episodes from here (our WordPress blog).
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Engine trouble
We mentioned our engine trouble a few times already in our podcast, but I thought I give an overview and update here on the blog as well. As is usually the case, the engine didn’t just stop working out of the blue. When we were in Walvis Bay, about half a year ago, we ran…
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Internet on St Helena, it’s a challenge
Getting on the internet in St Helena is expensive and slow so better stay offline as much as possible.
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It’s been a while
We have not been posting on our blog since we left Walvis Bay over a month ago. That is mostly because the internet here on St Helena island is very slow, unreliable, and expensive. We’ll write a post about that (the dodgy internet on the island) and about some other challenges we’ve encountered here so…
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Parallels between AfrikaBurn and crossing an ocean
This week’s episode of our Sailing Tropical Dawn podcast is about how going to AfrikaBurn prepared us for sailing across an ocean.
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Podcast episode about preparations
This week’s episode of our Sailing Tropic al Dawn podcast is about Preparation as we prepare to cross an ocean.
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