Giel
In the Luderitz yacht club, we are approached by Guillaume (Giel) du Toit. He introduces himself as the custodian of the Seven Seas Project. The questionnaire he handed us, a…
New Boat, New Crew, New Ocean.
After two months in South Africa, almost to the day, and of those two months, thirty-six days in Cape Town, we are sailing once again. We are making our way…
Night Watch
Night watch is the best. From one in the morning until somewhere around seven or eight. Of course, it’s not the best when it’s raining, or snowing, not that that’s…
Busy Day
Dan woke up around eight this morning and announced he couldn’t go back to sleep anymore, not even if his life depended on it. I, on the other hand, had…
Peeing Overboard
First thing half the people assess when stepping on a small boat is finding a location to pee from? Just a fact, because, what’s more important than finding a safe…
Becalmed. Now What?
Yesterday the wind died. It didn’t slowly diminish, it didn’t stop with a last hooray, like a car engine with a clogged fuel filter, giving you one more time a…
Drunken Sailors
He sits at the table behind me and then a little to the left. All by his lonesome self, but don’t look now. I’d say about 60 or so, slightly…
Out of the Zone into the Trades
Weather is very unpredictable, to say the least. Every evening captain Dan downloads weather forecasts, computer generated ones, which he then studies intensely before telling me what the predictions are…
In Contrast!
The tours we take, the travel we do, the vacations we go on. As I departed New Zealand on a sailboat on the seventh of May, my wife, Sheena, had…
Crossing the Equator
Big honking deal! For days the anticipation is palpable. We keep each other informed, “Hey Dan, only three more degrees and twenty minutes and we’re there.” That roughly translates into…