Category: cruising life
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Preparations
We are making last minute preparations for our passage from Walvis Bay to St Helena. Last thing that needs to happen is installing and connecting the tri/anchor light. As usual things don’t go as planned and this morning’s trip up the mast to install the tri light didn’t go as planned. I wanted to mount…
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Frustrations podcast episode
This week in our “Sailing Tropical Dawn” podcast we talk about “Frustrations”. Listen to it on our blog or on www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dimitri31801/episodes/2023-03-31T04_00_00-07_00
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Renamed our podcast
The aim of our Tropical Dawn podcast has always been twofold: A. let our friends and family know how our cruising lifestyle is turning out and keeping them up to date on our sailing adventures and B. inspiring others who might want to sail away one day and share the lessons we’ve learned as we…
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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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