Tag: Walvis Bay
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9. Preparation
As we are preparing for our crossing from Walvis Bay in Namibia to St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean we recorded this episode of our Sailing Tropical Dawn podcast talking about how we prepare for being at see for more than a week
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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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8. Frustrations
This week’s episode of our podcast is around the theme of Frustrations. I guess we needed to vent some frustrations that have been popping up in the last few weeks, one of them being that we are still stuck in Walvis Bay Namibia.
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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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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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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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