Episode 143 : So the borders are going to start opening up the 1st of October which hopefully means Namibia will be following which means we can leave soon, but first we got some boat tasks to complete because we really don't want to have to pay double for...
Episode 142: Life is SHORT, Make MEMORIES!!
While we are stuck here in Cape Town we are making the best of it and one thing we have learnt is time stands still for no body so we are going to make memories because life is far to short to fret about the lit...
Episode 141: Becoming Pigeon Whisperers?
As we await our borders to open up as well as Namibian borders we opted to get some sight seeing done + a few boat tasks at hand. We wanted to vented the area where our inverter is just to reduce the amount of heat...
Episode 140:
As time is flying by and the clock is ticking, we are starting to feel the pressure to leave South Africa. The travel ban provincially has been lifted in South Africa and it's only about time that the you will be able to travel internationally...
Episode 139: We are in the MIDDLE of NOWHERE!
We took a much needed soul rejuvenating trip to our friends farm up in Skaap Vlei. If you're wondering where that is.. don't worry.. we didn't know either until we go there (it's in the middle of nowhere) As ...
Episode 138: Building Head Doors
This week we got started on a task Ricky was not looking forward to, that being.. getting our head door complete. For the longest time we thought of getting someone in to build the door for us that is how badly we didn't ...
Episode 137:
We managed to finish up our electrical system tidy up. I thought Ricky was just being OCD about the whole thing but then realized how much neater but also safer our electrical is now. We added some MEGA Fuses (which took us so damn long to fi...
Episode 136:
Our electrical system has been bothering Ricky tremendously. Every time he opened it up, he'd sigh and say how he needed to redo it.. That day had come. Rewiring our electrical system. We disconnected our batteries, disassembled our buck boo...
Episode 135:
We get some painting down and install our acrylic panel that will close up our holding tank, receive our DC to DC converters and upgrade our toilet! We now got a fancy toilet!!! 🚽🎉
Our Victron gear:
DC to DC Converter:
https://www.vict...
Episode 134:
Part 2 of our holding tank install. Watch part one below 👇
https://youtu.be/n_kbgD3Wjfk
We had to decide if we wanted to have the debris from our toilet flush straight through our holding tank and then out to the ocean if the valve is turn...
Episode 133
Part 1 of our holding tank install. We have put off putting in our holding tank because man we thought this job is gonna suck!! Holding tanks are part of a lot of countries regulations so it was a job we had to do. Thank goodness for our favori...
Episode 132
Part 2 of our water maker install. Running the electrical for it. Which ended up with a bit of a water maker problem..... our power supply couldn't cope with the inrush current to start the DC Motor. We have thought about it long and hard and ...
Episode 131:
I finally managed to get Ricky away from his other boat jobs for a bit to start on our own boat projects. One being the water maker which we have procrastinated for the longest time! She is finally installed plumbing wise and next week we'll g...
Episode 130:
Ricky has been super busy building up our sailing kitty again by working on a boat here at the V&A Waterfront installing a lithium battery setup for them. Ricky also shows you the battery setup he has installed on SV Nauti Nauti (A 40ft Le...
Episode 129
We get done to installing AIS which means we not only receiving but also sending which is fantastic! (Thanks so much to one of our very special Patreons for gifting us this) Our parents are ecstatic now cause they can track us 🤗 We also get ...
Episode 128
Another week in lock down but hey look at the bright side.. we're at level 3 now which means one step closer to more borders opening up. This week we get our lithium's charging from our alternator, which means we installed our Victron buck boo...
Episode 127
Yes. We are still in lockdown & probably will be for a while. So what does that mean for us here on Lady Africa?? More and more boat projects. This week we get our sails taken down and sent to Ulman sails for some quotations and sizing.. W...
Episode 126
Since being stuck in Lock down since the end of March, we used the first couple of weeks to do absolutely nothing... we got so bored and fidgety we decided why not finish all the boat projects left to do now so once the travel ban is lifted we ...
Join us for a live chat. Whats next for us on Lady Africa. When are we going to leave.. if we can leave and whats the next stop and what have we been up too during our lockdown. Look forward to seeing you all there. 😁😁
We also have this spiffy new J...
Episode 125
The big.... no HUGE question that has been on everyone's mind? How much exactly did our catmaran rebuild cost us? Well we go into depth of how much our Dean 365 cost us from start to finish. What those costs entailed.. what it took from us.. ...
EP 124
Join us as we give you guys a interior walk-through of our Dean 365 Ocean liner Catamaran you have NEVER heard of, that we have restored from the Abandoned Yacht that she was before to the lady she is now. The Dean 365 is known to have the largest ...
EP 123
Join us as we give you guys a exterior walk-through of our Dean 365 Ocean liner Catamaran you have NEVER heard of! that we have restored from the Abandoned Yacht that she was before to the lady she is now. We talk all things outside & what she h...
EP 122
So we find ourselves in the beginning week of our lockdown! What does that mean for us here on Lady Africa? Laundry...Haircuts, hanging out in our VETUS Jacuzzi & BOAT WORK! We installed our two new port lights that we initially thought were goi...
EP. 121It was an Experience of a lifetime to climb up Table Mountain in South Africa and see the most beautiful views in the world
Prior to all the Quarantine and Lock downs that have taken place in South Africa & most of the world, we were able to tra...
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