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This week's episode of our Sailing Tropical Dawn podcast is around the theme of Frustrations. I guess we needed to vent some frustrations that have been popping up in the last few weeks, one of them being that we are still stuck in Walvis Bay Namibia. Even though we love it here, we are getting a bit of cabin fever and feeling like we want to be on our way towards St Helena and Brazil. Check out t...

In this week's episode of "Sailing Tropical Dawn" we talk about the difference between the expectations we had about sailing, cruising, yacht clubs and what the reality turns out to be. We also talk a bit about our experiences at Royal Cape Yacht Club, Walvis Bay Yacht Club and our time spent in Hout Bay. We mentioned the Cruising Documentary - Queen's Birthday Storm which you can view on Youtube:...

In this week’s episode of our Tropical Dawn Podcast we talk about choices. We have been thinking about the choice wether to continue our sailing journey across the South Atlantic towards Brazil and the Caribbean or to have a break from cruising and return to South Africa to see friends and family and to go to AfrikaBurn. We chatted about all this as well as our thoughts about Donald Crowhurst and...

The past week was quite eventful: we dragged anchor, we had to drop our anchor and retrieve it the next day, we went on an excursion on the dinghy and almost lost the dinghy, and we got a rope caught in the dinghy's prop. But we made it trough all that and are fine, and we have a new episode of our podcast to tell you about all these things. We both wrote blog posts about dragging anchor, here's D...

This week's episode of our Tropical Dawn podcast will be about Walvis Bay in Namibia, where we currently still are at anchor and have been for over a month as well as about the road trip we did throughout Namibia. Our blog post about Walvis Bay is now on our spanking new S/V Tropical Dawn blog: https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/01/29/walvis-bay/ Noonsite page about Walvis Bay: https://www.noonsite....

Here is the full recording of the conversation we had with Andries/Eiitango Jetango, we had to edit it a bit because the Lüderitz episode of our podcast was getting to long. So here, as a bonus, the full, unedited conversation.

This episode of our Tropical Dawn podcast is about the town of Lüderitz in Namibia we sailed to in our little boat, our adventures there and some of the people we met there, including a recording of part of the conversation we had with Andries/Eiitango Jetango. We edited the recording of our conversation because this episode is already quite long but we'll upload the whole recording here as a bonu...

In the first episode we talked about how we got started with cruising and how we got to the point where we felt ready to set off on our first serious passage, which is where this episode picks up. Some terminology we use in this episode: boom and kicker, click on the links to know what those mean. We also mentioned the posts Kay has written which you can find here: https://dhuyvetter.eu/author/kay...

Just a teaser/intro/trailer for our second episode which will be about passages and us trying to get from Cape Town to St Helena.

Introducing ourselves and our podcast: we are Kay & Dimi and we are sailing on a 31 foot (9.3 meter) boat from Cape Town, South Africa to wherever the wind will cay us. 

In our first episode we share with you how we got started with sailing, bought our first (and second) sailboat and got ready to take her across the ocean. Some practical info as well as insights we gathered that helped us get to where we are now, which is actually sailing our own yacht on the ocean. Mentioned in this episode: Bernard Moitessier, Joshua Slocum, full keel versus fin keel. If you wan...