Saturday morning, I find myself on the fourth floor of the Zeitz MOCAA museum of contemporary African Art in the Silo district at the Victory & Alfred Waterfront in Cape…

Good morning from Hout Bay Yacht club Marina, 20 km south of Cape Town. We have been here for over ten days, and I have been busy sightseeing every day…

The last leg, so we hope, of the first stage of the voyage. If all goes well, we should exit the exit Indian Ocean Saturday or Sunday and splash into…

We’re on a passage from Durban to Port Elisabeth. And boy, do we have current, at least a good three knots of it, sometimes even more. Great wind to boot,…

It was the day before Christmas. Jeremy, a solo sailor on a 53-foot boat from Leicester, England, invited a select number of people to his, apparently, annual Christmas breakfast. Males…

Thoughts of leaving Richards Bay anytime soon are becoming illusions as the weather relentlessly blows winds from the wrong direction, not allowing us an opportunity to raise sails and continue…

Reunion's customs had cleared us at the Marina at eight in the morning. Two guys, Steve asked if he could take their picture, as he had never seen customs officers…

Just over a day and a half from Mauritius to Réunion. One day, two nights. We left late in the afternoon on December the second and arrived in Réunion on…

Port Louis! What a place to sail into. It is a very small harbor, but my favorite so far. It resembles mostly a channel, about two kilometers long and 250…

This post was supposed to be about going and being in Mauritius, but my rambling about leaving Rodrigues and entering Mauritius became the topic by itself along the way. This…