Category: cruising life
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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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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…
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Almost ready to set sail across the big blue
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Boat life
We have been living on our boat for a while now in preparation of a South Atlantic crossing later this year.
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