Just hours away from sailing from Dakar, Senegal to Cabo Verde. We just need a engine starter, ignition, alternator and diesel engine philosophy. We board the ...

Arona and crew brought Simone the Perkins Diesel engine back home to Galopin via the beach and dinghy. He installed it just enough for us to go a give it a ...

We are into cosmetics now. Simone the Perkins diesel engine is tuned and ready for it’s beauty treatment. She will proudly wear the Perkins brand blue. ...

Doing a full diesel engine rebuild takes time, and money. Arona is diligently caring for Simone the Perkins 4108. As I take care of projects on Galopin while ...

My boat Galopin and I are waiting for Simone, our Perkins diesel engine to have her full makeover by Arona, greatest shade tree mechanic I know. We’re living ...

After a brutal storm, a strange empty traditional boat has drifted very close to me and my boat. I later learn the boat has a sinister story. The storm has ...

We are rebuilding my Perkins 4108 diesel engine. And we need parts for that. Those parts were found, ordered and purchase at parts4engines.com. An excellent ...

This is Africa. I sailed over 450nm to come and have the one person I trust with my engine. Master Mechanic Arona. Galopin and I are looking forward to some ...

Welcome to Season 7 of Winded Voyage. This is sailing Africa. And it starts by doing big time maintenance on my dear Galopin. Most notably the Perkins 4108 ...

This is is the only sailing channel that dares to sail Africa. Curently in Dakar Senegal getting ready to embark on an epic journey sailing around Africa, ...

I had patched a leak in my engine cooling system. Sailed under spinnaker. Got through a squall and heavy rain. So far this journey was what sailing is all ...

#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #travel #africa #windedvoyage It was a white knuckle experience hauling out my boat Galopin on the beach. On the way up, ...

#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #africa Yes, we got robbed and arrested. How did it happen? Tune in and hear the story of our boat heist and what it's ...

#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #africa This once was West Africa's most beautiful bay. And now it has become a polluted mess. Why? Long time local ...

#sailing #sailinglifestyle #africancountry #windevoyage There are virtually no water birds in Cabo Verde. Now in Senegal, it's the African wilderness. There ...

#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure I made a promise to Wendy. To bring her to Dakar and experience the big city. She had never left Cabo Verde before. So we ...

#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure We’re on the last leg of our passage to Senegal from Cabo Verde. And it looks like we may be stirred and bobbled for what ...

#sailing #dakar #sailinglifestyle We were just going out to buy some new batteries in Dakar. The city was unusually quiet because of fear of rioting in the ...

#solosailing #offgrid #livingfree One of the main reasons I came back to Dakar Senegal was to get my sails repaired and more. I do not have the budget to ...

#sailing #offgrid #livingfree We sail out of Dakar Senegal in West Africa and out into the rough Atlantic Ocean. Taking my boat Galopin for an open sea trial. ...

#sailing #offgrid #livingfree When Galopin was sailing with the motor under load I heard and felt something was not right. And it was Arona, the genius ...

#sailing #offgrid #livingfree Here we are living on the hard in Dakar Senegal. Me and my boat Galopin. In this case the hard or boat yard is the beach. Which ...

It's 475nm from Dakar Senegal to Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands, West Africa. Or about a three day and night passage. We had to weave through busy local ...

Me and my boat Galopin are stranded in Dakar Senegal, West Africa. But the man, Arona comes to the rescue with a new gearbox. He installs it successfully and ...