We want you to know that both of us are fine and the boat is fine. We had a fairly major failure however today. The autopilot stopped working for no reason and the boat accidentally \”gybed\”. This cause two lines to break, the boom to swing to the wrong side and break it\’s mandril out […]
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Cape Town & Departure Preparations….. March 21st – April 12th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) Nikki and I went up Table Mountain which is nothing short of spectacular. See :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Mountain Despite the animals and other natural wonders of South Africa, this IS the most visited place in the country. The views world class from both the bottom and
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Touring Cape Agulhas & The Winelands….. To see the PHOTO GALLERY associated with this Ship\’s Blog: CLICK HERE March 16 – March 20th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) As Cape Agulhas held special meaning (along with the Cape of Good Hope), for Cindy and me, I felt a personal visit would be in order. When Alexandra
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Simon\’s Town to Cape Town….. March 15th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) It was time to finally move the boat the 50 mile trip from Simon\’s Town in False Bay to Cape Town. By car, this trip takes about 35 minutes as it\’s only about 17 miles. But by boat, we had to go 15 miles south
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe……. March 9th – 11th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) Well we had such a good time in Namibia (and yet a bit of time before we would be off to Cape Town with the boat), so Nikki suggested we fly to Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe/Zambia border. This waterfall made famous by the one
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Namibia by Air and Land….. To see the PHOTO GALLERY associated with this Ship\’s Blog: CLICK HERE February 26 – March 3rd, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) As I had wanted to see more of Africa, I made arrangements through a cruiser that Cindy and I had met in Bora Bora in 2010. James Sale (cute uh?)
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Touring Simon\’s Town & Cape Town, South Africa….. February 18-24th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) After our lovely greeting by the cruising community to assist our docking at False Bay Yacht Club, we were moved over to the inner wide berths for multihulls. This was a mixed blessing. It did get us out of a lot of
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/26 09:35 LATITUDE: 33-54.52S LONGITUDE: 018-25.16E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1019.1 AIR_TEMP: 21.1C COMMENT: Beach House -DOCKED- V&A Marina – Cape Town, SA for repairs…… We have arrived at the V&A Marina where we have a nice interior slip. The weather was a huge blessing
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/25 08:09 LATITUDE: 31-20.38S LONGITUDE: 016-56.72E COURSE: 157T SPEED: 6.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: NNE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 0.5M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1019 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 20.0C SEA_TEMP: 16.7C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE-Cape Town, SA. Should arrive Friday afternoon. It\’s nice that