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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Knysna to Simon\’s Town, Around Cape Aghulhas – End Book Two….. 16 February – 17 February, 2013 As the \”Heads\” had such a bad nautical reputation and our next weather window would be blustery, we again planned our exit cautiously. This time, prepared from Cousin Gill that the \”heads\” had a web cam, we sent
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Knysna….. 12 February – 15 February, 2013 We left Port Elizabeth with lovely Southeasterly conditions and after clearing the point, we were soon able to set sail. The trip would be all day, all night with a 7 a.m. arrival to enter the infamous Knysna Heads right before high tide. These \”heads\”, which are two
Port Elizabeth to Knysna….. 09 February – 12 February, 2013 We pulled into Algoa Bay Yacht Club in Port Elizabeth late in afternoon and luckily were able to get a slip assignment before the dock master left for the day. First of all, the docks here were extremely surgey. Worse, they were lined with rusty
Richards Bay to Durban, South Africa….. 02 February – 08 February 2013 Alexandra and I had just had a lovely time exploring the Thorny Bush Game park near Kruger National Park in northeast South Africa. Included was a spectacularly scenic drive near Nelspruit, just west of Swaziland. The game park was terrific with sightings of
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01 February 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) UTC +2 Dear F&F, After some R&R in Santa Barbara and London, I\’ve returned back to South Africa with Alexandra Deegan from the UK who will crew with me from Richard\’s Bay to Cape Town. Once in Cape Town, Alexandra will head back to the UK and Nicola Woodrow will
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The wind is in from Africa….. (Joni Mitchell) 24 November 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well…it\’s been 10,000 miles this season! Wow… Lots to reflect upon. We arrived here on the 20th in a blustery Northeaster of 20-25 knots. We did see a 38 knot gust here in the harbor at Richard\’s Bay on the
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A little bit of stress for the end of the ride….. 19 November 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere now on +2 UTC) Dear F&F, We left Linga Linga yesterday morning and had no trouble getting out of the estuary. We headed south into the SSW head wind, but it didn\’t seem too bad and we found the
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Linga Linga, Mozambique….. 17 November 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere), now UTC+2 Dear F&F, Ah the best laid plans! We thought it would be easy to anchor at the Light House anchorage here in Inhambane Bay, but no such luck. The NNE at 25 knots makes the anchorage a lee shore and it would be horribly uncomfortable.
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Getting busier around here….. 16 November 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We sailed all night and ran out of wind per usual by 9:30 a.m. BEFORE I would start the port engine, I wanted to check on my Rube Goldberg. Good thing too! I used one clear plastic hose OVER the main fuel tank hose
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