Apr 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Where to start? The journey and achievements since the last update have delivered a lifetime of memories and yet, we have thousands of miles near term to cover before arriving back home by June of 2024. This is certainly shaping up to be a journey of preeminent...
Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Life, it can be said, is a series of ever evolving transitions and milestones. This journey aboard Sláinte and decision to try our hand full time at the nomadic seafaring lifestyle is no different. Post the holidays, our journey has now transitioned from a focus on...
Jan 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Grenada arrival. Slainte Atlantic crossing completed. “Dec 7th, a day which will live in infamy” FDR How fitting to sail into Grenada on such a historic day in the history of the United States (and the world), although 72 years later to the day this sunrise would...
Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
03°49.95’S, 32°24.4’W 12 days out from St. Helena we sailed into the harbor of Fernando DeNoronha, a beautiful archipelago off the coast of Brazil which limits visitors (excluding those arriving by boat) to 400 individuals at any one given time. Unlike St. Helena,...
Nov 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Land Ho – St. Helena 15°96.5’S, 005°70.9’W 11 days out from our Cape Town departure, after a generally slow slog of unusually very light winds, St. Helena appeared like an oasis. Shrouded in fog, it reminded me of the opening scene to the Jurassic Park/Lost...
Nov 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
November 4, 2023 Cast off the lines, the distance sailing part of this journey has begun in earnest. 29°30.2.’S, 009°19.9’E (~ 550 nm off the African continent, heading to St. Helena) Since our last update we departed Knysna, rounded one of the great capes of the...
Oct 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
October 26, 2023 Oxbow Life meets Sláinte Physical Geography, Geology. a bow-shaped bend in a river, or the land embraced by it. Also called oxbow lake – a bow-shaped lake formed in a former channel of a river. At one point or other you’ve probably seen an...
Oct 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
October 24, 2023 34°55.9’S, 019°45.6’E (for anyone checking those coordinates, as I type this we are rounding one of the Great Capes on a beautiful morning with a light ocean swell! A sailors bucket list item, the Southern most tip of the African continent) “Life...
Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
October 1, 2023 34°2.507’S, 23°2.664’E Where has all the time gone? With the end of September and an impending late October departure looming from our absolutely beautiful enclave of Knysna, we are acutely aware of all that must still be done to prepare while...
Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
September 19, 2023 34°2.507’S, 23°2.664’E The weeks since our last update includes a few noteworthy milestones:• Our first Ocean sail outside the infamous Knysna Heads aboard Sláinte• Check out the first 5 min of sailing Nahoa’s channel for insight to the Knysna...
