South Africa is complex, like its finest wine. There are some bitter nuances to the sweetness of it’s flavor. Apartheid is still recent history, and in this blog post, I acknowledge the lingering after taste in my own experience of South Africa. This took me ten months to write, the issues are so co
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With Cape Town being graced with not one, but two restaurants ranked in the Top 100 in the world, we couldn’t sail into port without experiencing what that might be like. I wasn’t going to write about it, but I was manipulated into doing so by my pal, Steelie Pete. .Join us in Part Two of an extreme
When you are out at sea 1000 miles from anywhere, just about any meal prepared on land sounds pretty darn good. Join us in this blog post as I try to give fellow offshore sailors the full blow-by-blow experience of dining in Cape Town at restaurant consistently ranked in the top 100 restaurants in
Previously feeling a bit confined to the boat out of necessity of defending it from her Frenemy Boots, she finally gets to stretch her legs a bit when Boots departs on his own South Atlantic crossing. Join Kitty as she introduces you to her favorite spot of all in Cape Town.
Isn’t sailing around the world a bit lonely? We get this question sometimes, and in this post we answer it in a round about way. Making and maintaining friendship while cruising is a unique experience. It’s a nod to the inevitable ebb and flow of people physically present in your life. Join us in th
With the whole fleet’s lines secured to their dock slip of choice, holiday festivities of 2021 were under way. Just like celebrating on land, we enjoy the antics of Crazy-Uncle-Pete, a series of culinary successes, and the kind of epic Christmas Dessert failure that places 2021 in the “Most Mem
We had arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, a world class city designed from its inception to replenish a sailors’ spirit. Join us for the start of a whole series of posts all about living the Cape Town Life and preparing Sonrisa, her Wine Cellar, and our souls to cross the South Atlantic Ocean 2022.
Let’s just say, the passage from Richard’s Bay to East London goes down as one of the most physically miserable passages we have experienced in 24,000 miles of sailing. And, it made the cat angry. But Sonrisa hit another water-speed record while riding the Agulhas Current like a runaway speed train.
You remember the Oddgodfreys? Used to sail a lot, and post a lot. Well, finally, here they are again, after ONE, count it, ONE post this year! Yoiks! Don’t they realize that if they don’t post, I actually have to write my own stuff???
Okay, joking. Glad to have them back. Here is the latest, and there are two more. From here, just follow the links on their blog!
The Oddgodfreys commence their by-land wandering through South Africa. Leaving Sonrisa tied up to her slip at the Zululand Yacht Club, we embark into wild and unknown territory involving ramps to the moon, holes into the center of the earth, and hopefully, ghosts!
We reached the shores of Richard’s Bay, South Africa and planned to stay for only a few days. Days stretched to weeks as the weather stayed true to form on the coast known as Shipwreck Coast.