Quick Posts
Short updates on where Anjea is and what we are up to.
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Light Overnight
Conditions moderated through the day yesterday and we motored thru flat seas and no wind most of the night. The wind has picked up nicely now, but from North, while the latest forecast has it from …
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Goodbye South Africa
Cape Town, you were everything I imagined, and more, but it’s time to go. We left just before the opening bridges shut down for scheduled load-shedding and are now negotiating the traffic off Cape …
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Cape Town
We motored in light to non-existent breeze for the last day and arrived in spectacular Cape Town about 1700. The mountain backdrop, the harbour and the waterfront are spectacular.
Marina …
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The Cape
It is a gybe like any other. Walter takes the wheel and I manage the sheets. There is 15 kn of breeze from behind and the gybe itself is smooth as silk. But this is no ordinary gybe because it …
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Solid Sailing
A good steady easterly carried us past Plattenberg Bay and Mossel Bay, along the bottom of Africa. Weather is mild and the sea is mostly less than 2m. There is a constant stream of commercial …
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So Now We are Three
St Francis Marina is excellent but we paid a premium for our berth. It was worth it though, to spend some time with my friends Walter and Jacqui. We had a fabulous day with them at the Ado Elephant …
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Arrived St Francis
The port captain gave us directions to negotiate the tricky entrance. Easterlies can make it difficult, and that’s what we have. We get thru OK and Keewell is waiting in a dinghy just inside. We …
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St Francis
Merel stood the graveyard shift last night and I got a full night’s sleep! Wow! That’s a luxury I don’t get when I’m solo.
It is now dawn. The sun just blinking over the low sea-mist on the …
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Strong Winds
The crew (who shall remain nameless) decided to seek better winds offshore but were eventually persuaded it was better to head for St Francis than the Southern Ocean, even if the angle was not so …
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Light Winds
Merel saved the day by untangling the mainsail halyard and I promptly wrapped it around the other spreader! But with daylight it was an easy fix and we have spend the day sailing, motoring and …