We did it! We started our circumnavigation! We moved onto the boat end of November 2018 and left Cape Town beginning February 2019. We had three months to prepare Sisu and ourselves for this day...Now you know why we were a bit busy :-) RYA Yachtmaster Off...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I bring my good friend Terry Billingsly back on the channel. He helped me in the planning when I started this channel and he is the one that Created the Cruising Off Duty App that will help you stay connected to me wh...
This week we share to check out of Cape Town, South Africa. It is a shlep to check out, but it can be made easy if simplified. Also, one can check out of SA and not have your boat as per Regulations, in the Royal Cape Yacht Club for inspection. Watch this ...
This week we share how Petro figured out the storage on our Leopard 45 Catamaran and she came up with a lot of ingenious ways of keeping things organized on a cat, which offers a LOT of space!
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This week we share what we did in and around Cape Town, South Africa. It has so much to offer! We only touched a minute part of it!
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This week we share the procedures and protocol involved with the application (or not) of visas . . .
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This week we share our shake down cruise, but it was not the normal shakedown, it was proper. We sailed around Cape of Storms. We went to Saldanha, then Houtbay, then around Cape Point to Simons Town, then to Gordons Bay, Pringle Bay and then all the way b...
This week we share the Sisu Specs in our Leopard 45 Catamaran walk through. We did a lot of research and a lot of waiting, but finally it all come together! We uploaded for our Patrons (patreon.com/SailingSisu) the complete list of factory options, after m...
Ep173. In this episode, we will give you an update on the South Atlantic Sailing Voyage where I will be sailing on an Xquisite X5 from Cape Town South Africa to the Caribbean and possibly beyond and how the trip almost got cancelled.
We will then give yo...
This week we packed all our belongings into a bakkie and a trailer...and took the 1,400km trip to Cape Town. It finally happened. We moved onto Sisu, our Leopard 45 Catamaran sailboat!
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