After a long journey up the African coast, Dakar serves as the final stop to tackle a critical repair on Galopin: a broken genoa furler. Watch as local experts ...

Eleven days at sea, sailing west across the South Atlantic from St Helena to Fernando de Noronha. There’s no big crisis on this passage—just the rhythm of ...

Meet the Fothergills: An Australian family of six living a life of radical adventure aboard their Leopard 46 catamaran, Happy Days, across the Indian Ocean.

There's something pretty special about heading home at sunset… when home is floating somewhere out there. 🌅⛵ All five of us piled into the dinghy, salty, ...

Six months into my stay in the bay, it was finally time to take Galopin out of the water because the hull growth had attached itself with a vengeance. Hauling ...

This video documents the somber hours after a severe storm hit our bay in Dakar. A poorly anchored work barge drifted through the anchorage, causing serious ...

📨 Join our newsletter: https://sailingwithsix.kit.com/9c29113ead After 11 days at sea, St Helena felt like the perfect place to stop, reset and catch our ...

I vowed never to ride a moto-taxi again, but the people here in Africa changed my mind. Meet Mamgol, a 64-year-old mast climber built like a jockey who helps ...

Season 6 starts here! 🌊⛵ After an incredible season in South Africa, it’s time to point Happy Days west and head out into the South Atlantic. Our next stop: ...

Could you find your way out of Colobane Market? One of the busiest in Dakar Senegal. I team up with my friend Asse to recover a lost hard drive in one of ...

We finally got the sails up with Diego and Pape, but our Sunday excursion to Gorée Island wasn't just about the journey—it was about the irony of the ...

Two weeks away was all it took for Galopin to show the scars of our rough return from Cabo Verde. In this episode, we dive into the gritty reality of boat ...

Do I have medical insurance? No, I don't. So what do I do in case of an incident? Like on a motorcycle taxi where I got burned on the exhaust pipe which turned ...

We thought leaving South Africa would be easy. We were wrong. Our last stop before checking out was Langebaan — and if we're honest, it might just be one of ...

In this premiere episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the real life of a sailor in West Africa. It’s not just wind and water; it’s about survival. I’ll ...

After months of hard work, sanding, and refitting, Galopin is finally going back in the water! In this episode, we navigate the ups and downs of boat life in ...

We left Hout Bay after weeks of boat work and paperwork, ready to see a little more of South Africa before saying goodbye to it for good. First stop: anchoring ...

The wait is over—Galopin is finally out of the water. Join us in Dakar for a traditional African haul-out where power tools are banned, and everything is done ...

For weeks, Cape Town had been all about fixing the boat, chasing paperwork, and getting ready for the next leg of our journey. But once the biggest jobs were ...

Welcome to The Gambia—the small sliver of a country carved by colonizers but defined by its incredibly chilled vibe. In this episode, we link up with a local ...

📨 Join our newsletter: https://sailingwithsix.kit.com/9c29113ead Our visa extension was rejected. After driving five and a half hours from Hout Bay to George ...

After three months in Senegal, the port police told me I had to leave the territory to renew my visa. The only option? A trip to The Gambia, the small country ...

Before we could leave South Africa behind for good, Happy Days needed to be ready for everything the Atlantic could throw at her. What followed was days of ...

Leaving the calm of the Casamance River was the easy part. Getting Galopin safely to Dakar with a torn Genoa and a "toy" storm sail was a different story. In ...