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A Scary Haul Out | The Wheels Fall Off Car | Doing Boat Maintenance In Dakar Senegal | S6 Epsd 85
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #adventure #travel #africa #windedvoyage It was a white knuckle experience hauling out my boat Galopin on the beach. On the way up, two of the 18 wheels fell off. Good thing there were 16 left. And just as we got up on the beach,...
I Got Robbed & Arrested In Dakar Senegal | West Africa With Sailor Wendy | Season 6 | Episode 82
#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 like to get busted in the big city of Dakar on a Saturday night after going night clubbing. 00:00 ...
What Happened To The Once Most Beautiful Bay In West Africa? | Season 6 | Episode 81
#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 resident Sami explains. On the bright side, this is where my boat Galopin gets the best people to fix...
They Sh*t On My Boat | Living & Sailing West Africa With Sailor Girl Wendy | Season 6 | Episode 80
#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...
Extreme Shopping In Dakar Market | West Africa With Sailor Girl Wendy | Season 6 | Episode 79
#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...
Sailing Into Imposing Dakar | West Africa With Sailor Girl Wendy | Season 6 | Episode 78
#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 should be our last night at sea. We just had to get passed all these fishing vessels. Mostly C...
We Got Tear Gassed In Dakar Senegal | Sailing In West Africa | Season 6 | Episode 53
#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 streets. As I was purchasing the batteries we heard crowd noises and our eyes were stinging. Police ...
Sailor Alex In Dakar Senegal | Where I Go To Get My Boat Fixed In West Africa | Season 6 | Episode 7
#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 simply order new sails. Here people don’t just replace things, they fix things. I was impressed by ...
The Open Sea Trial | In The Rough Atlantic | Sailing In West Africa | Season 5 | Episode 103
#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. Arona, the genius mechanic, had a new custom propeller shaft made and it proved to be an huge imp...
How My Boat Got The Shaft | & Who Did It | Sailing & Living In West Africa | Season 5 | Episode 102
#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 mechanic who discovered why. The propeller shaft was bent. In a few days my boat got properly shafted by...
Living On The Hard In Dakar Senegal | Sailing & Living Free In West Africa | Season 5 | Episode 101
#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 is just in front of CVD, Club de Voile Dakar, the yacht club. I'm hosted by Arona who is the techn...
Oh no Fishing Net Traps | Sailing Galopin From Senegal to Cape Verde Islands | Season 5 | Episode 63
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 pirogue traffic, the Senegalese Navy and hidden fishing nets. Thanks to some luck and a last ditch e...
Rescue In Senegal | Past The Island With A Sinister Past | Sailing Galopin | Season 5 | Episode 62
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 then takes us to buy new deep cycle gel batteries. We prepare to sail again. On the way back to Ca...
Working With A Giant Of A man | A Great Mechanic Will Fix Galopin’s Gearbox | Season 5 | Episode 61
Dakar Senegal, West Africa. Where no other sailing channel dares to go. But me and Giani go there and enjoy fine food and meet a host of interesting people. The yacht club bar tender who teaches me a few word in Walaf. A Lebanese doctor who makes us Falafe...