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Despite conflicting reports on the re-opening of Madagascar to sailing yachts, we're investigating and planning the tricky sail across the Mozambique channel. The "traditional" route is direct from Richards Bay to Tulear (Southern Madagascar), but it's dif...

We find a slice of PARADISE! We've got exciting news!! We've entered an international yacht race from Mozambique to South Africa....which means we are going back to Inhaca Island 😃 and in the days waiting for the race start, we find a slice of paradise...

While we wait for cyclone season to pass and for us to sail to East Africa, this is life as it happens... We share our future sailing plans with you! Thanks for watching! Much love, Captain Robin, Charlotte, sailor girl Moya and Midnight, our sailing c...

Sailboat Haul Out. We're SUCKERS FOR PUNISHMENT!! Cyclone season is almost over and we need to get ready for our season of sailing East Africa! It’s that time of year again that we need to haul out our sailboat and clean our bottom!! We decided to do th...

After nearly 6000 nautical miles sailed and 8 countries later we finally make landfall on the mainland continent of Africa!! At 01:00 on December 2nd 2021 we tied Skylark to the quarantine dock in Richards Bay, South Africa. It's difficult to express in wo...

SUNDAY SAILING! Cruisers go RACING! While waiting for Madagascar to open we take advantage of joining in the Sunday Sailing Spring racing series! We're a sailing cruising boat, not a racer... But needless to say we take SeaScape out, all 12 tons of her, ...

HIPPO on the MAIN ROAD! Theres a hippo just cruising along the main road in Richards Bay and finding some fresh grass to munch on! Just another day in Africa! In many parts of the world you come across wildlife warning signs. Here in Richards Bay, South A...

THE FREEZER IS EMPTY!! Sailing to Cape Vidal. When there is no food in the fridge you gotta go fishing! So we take a friend sailing to catch some dinner! Our friend Steven is keen to go fishing on our sailboat, so after checking the weather forecast, we se...

RICHARDS BAY, in the land of the Zulus! Welcome to Coffee Time with the Drifters! These will be short more frequent episodes where we tell you about where we are, what we are doing, our plans going forward and all sort of other stuff. In this first episode...

Join Jupiter and crew sailing south Africa. We go shooting wild animals (photos of course!) before Jupiter goes back into the water. And then we sail the wild coast of Africa to the beautiful town of Knysna. Don't skip our new segment... Jupiters Galley! ...

Jupiter² sails across the Mozambique channel to Richards Bay, South Africa. And its that time of year again. Haul Out. And this one was a bit longer than planned. But it wasn't all hard work. We made time for play. This episode is dedicated to our dear d...

After chilling out in Richards Bay waiting for a good weather window to sail south we finally get what we’ve been waiting for! 30 + knots of wind, 5+ knots of current and some big seas rocket us south along the Wild Coast of South Africa! Brian has to ...