It’s my brother’s birthday and we celebrated with Oreos and Haribo gummy bears as we approached the halfway mark to St. Helena. We’ve had pleasant seas and winds all day – it’s exactly the way you picture sailing when you picture a pleasant day of sailing (not scary storms or rough seas). We’ve had our […]
Namibia
Walvis Bay
After anchoring in Walvis Bay, we took our dinghy ashore, loaded with wet, salty laundry from the massive wave that landed in our cockpit. Stefano from the World ARC was there to greet us, as the organization is planning to add this as a scheduled stop for next year’s tour. Almost half the fleet from […]
Luderitz Bail Out
Ahh, life at sea. The calming warmth of the sun, the peaceful waves, the seabirds frolicking. If only we could experience any of that for more than a few hours . . . We had all of that on our way to Luderitz. But the closer we got to the tiny town that was once […]