Sailing Tropical Dawn

Bigger is not always better, especially with sailboats.

Sometimes it feels like the world is chasing bigger and louder. But out here, the magic shows up in the quiet. A small boat, a calm anchorage, and a sunset that slows your whole body down. It’s a good reminder that life doesn’t have to be large to be meaningful. Sometimes less really does feel like more.

Good luck, fair winds, and following seas to all participants of this year’s Cape to St Helena Race!

January 4th this year (almost a year ago now) we were deep into our South Atlantic crossing from Brazil to South Africa. This was taken before we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn taking us out of the tropics.

Good motorsail yesterday. Finally got the boat to Simon’s Town. Made good progression especially once we round Cape Point and we’re on a beam reach to reach. Not enough wind to torn the engine off. Luckily the engine is working fine now that the diesel injector pump is fixed. Just a little issue with the throttle cable, which is the next thing to replace. Just glad to have the boat “home”!

Sailed Tropical Sawn over from Hout Bay to Simon’s Town. S as kwats a joy to sail past Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope. Thanks for the help and the nice company and the beautiful photos.

In this episode of our podcast we talk about our future sailing plans now that we are back home in Cape Town.

48. What are our future sailing plans In this episode of our podcast we talk about our future sailing plans now that we are back home in Cape Town. We are not planning to do weekly podcasts any more for now, but if you like hearing wha…

This week's episode of our podcast is all about why we love South Africa and Cape Town so much and how happy we are to be back!

47. We are back in South Africa We are so happy to be back in South Africa, and not just because we were tired of being on the water and love having solid ground under our feet. We both missed the very special country on the sout…

We recorded a podcast episode during our passage from Brazil to South Africa, about two weeks in. Reflections on our departure from Cabedelo and the start of the big South Atlantic passage.

Reflections on day 14 of our passage (extra episode) We recorded a podcast episode during our passage from Brazil to South Africa, about two weeks in. Reflections on our departure from Cabedelo and the start of the big South Atlantic passage.

We have arrived! Safely moored at Royal Cape Yacht Club. We made it!!

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And just had a large pod of the local dolphins swim past us.

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LAND HOOO!!! Finally seeing land! Duikerpunt and the other mountains around the corner from Hout Bay. We can even see Lions Head already!

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Our updated ETA is 2pm. We should have have land under our feet in a mere 4 hours!

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