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After a smooth South Atlantic crossing we arrive in time for some Brasilian Carnival!

In this week's episode of Barefoot Travels, Davy takes on a big project helping one of our buddy boats with a Lagoon bulkhead problem. This Lagoon problem is on the 400 S2 model, the bulkhead in the anchor locker has some major rot going on. Check out th...

The last 4 days of the 10 day crossing to Recife, our slowest ocean crossing so far

Carnival is calling, so we leave Saint Helena to reach Recife in time. There's not a lot of wind but enough to have a decent trip with the big sails.

Our arrival on Saint Helena is magnificent. With the rising sun on Barn Rock it just looks like it has been polished the day before. Very special this rock in the middle of the ocean, 1300 miles from Namibia and 1750 from Recife. I guess they wanted to be ...

Champagne sailing in less than 6 days, 1300 miles from Walvis Bay in Namibia to a lonely rock in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean

We didn't realize ourselves that the influence of the arctic Benguela current is that big in Namibia. Locals tell us we're even lucky with a couple of warm and very blue days. Perfect conditions to play in the sand before crossing the South Atlantic in the...

We return from Holland and have some time left to prepare the boat for the upcoming legs crossing the South Atlantic. The first leg goes from Cape Town over 700 miles north to Walvis Bay in Namibia which will take us 3,5 days accompagnied by Aline, whales,...

After crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean it is now time to cross the Indian Ocean. Maybe not the biggest ocean of the three but for sure the one that impressed us the most upfront In this half year from July 23 until December 23 we sail from the ...

Summary of episodes 267 to 303, year 2 out of 3 of our circumnavigation. This part is covering the period from July 2022 to July 2023.

Our last sail this year leads us around 2 notorious capes. The first one seems to be asleep, the second one is wide awake.

We just replaced the main halyard in Durban and after 2 hours of sailing .... the whole main comes down again