#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #windedvoyage #africa #caboverde
My boat is finally ready to sail after an extensive steering rebuild. Just in time to go and meet my friend Daniel on the island of Boa Vista. It's 140nm journey and I have just 30 hour...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #windedvoyage #africa #rescue
The boats owner asked me to bring diesel to the troubled cruiser out at sea. So I put the steering column back together so I could operate the engine and autopilot. The fishermen who had r...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #windedvoyage
Yes, my steering failed big time. Not the auto pilot, this time. Thank goodness, I used it to steer. I got back safe and took the whole steering system apart and found out what failed. But before that a W...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #windedvoyage #africa #caboverde
We're back in Mindelo, Cabo Verde. Where the music and dancing never stop. It's great to be back. I meet an old friend who's undertaking a sailing race around the world. He had to stop...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #windedvoyage
My boat was to go back into the water. The cable that pulled the cart had been fixed. As the cable pulled, the cart started rolling freely down the beach because the return cable holding the cart was not...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #travel #africa #windedvoyage
Where does one find pork meat in a Muslim country like Senegal? We're invited to a BBQ on an old tall ship by a local friend. But first he takes me to the outdoor pork market. And remembe...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #Africa
Is it possible to circumnavigate Africa the wrong way round? Some say it is not or not recommended. But what if it is? It would be a difficult challenge, but I met the man who is up for this challenge. Gerard, ...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #africa
Wendy is African. She has never seen any beast from her continent in real life, unlike us Northerners who since childhood have seen lions and chimps at the zoo and circus. I promised to changed that and we wen...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #africancountry #windevoyage
There are virtually no water birds in Cabo Verde. Now in Senegal, it's the African wilderness. There are big cormorants and birds of prey that love to perch aboard and bombard my Galopin with giant c...
#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 went to a French restaurant, where she ate some of the best food of her life. We went shopping i...
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