Category: Cruising destinations
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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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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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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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Port Owen marina
On our little West coast cruise from Cape Town we first stopped at Port Owen. This lovely marina is in the town of Veldrift and you have to go up the Berg River for about a mile to reach it. The official recommendation is that it is accessible for boats with drought of up to 2 meters…
Sailing Tropical Dawn 