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
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/24 11:16 LATITUDE: 29-09.43S LONGITUDE: 015-57.97E COURSE: 159T SPEED: 7.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 1.5M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1015 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 22.2C SEA_TEMP: 14.4C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE-Cape Town, SA – just south of Namibian border Happily,
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/23 10:36 LATITUDE: 26-37.01S LONGITUDE: 015-06.48E COURSE: 259T SPEED: 7.4 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 12 WIND_DIR: WSW CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1012.9 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE-Cape Town, SA for repairs. Abeam Diaz Point, Namibia The weather looks \”ok\” for the first 18 hours after which is goes lighter and
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/18 18:23 LATITUDE: 26-38.42S LONGITUDE: 015-09.44E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 25 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1018.2 AIR_TEMP: 13.9C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Back in Robert Harbor, Luderitz….. Crew is safe but tired. We had winds steady at 30-35 knots on the way back and saw gusts into the 40\’s, one
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/18 09:45 LATITUDE: 26-06.23S LONGITUDE: 014-47.96E MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 25 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 1.0M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1018.2 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 16.1C SEA_TEMP: 13.3C COMMENT: Beach House -BOOM BROKE – En Route to Walvis Bay…turning back for Luderitz I emailed everyone that