South Africa

4 years, 5 continents, 22,000 nautical miles sailed.

The adventure on Sailing Oroboro continues....

Kolmanskop, Namibia

Oroboro safely anchored in Luderitz, Namibia. The anchorage provides good holding, although it’s exposed to strong winds (we anchored in...

Maiden voyage

The time has finally come for us to set sail for our maiden voyage. We have worked out a navigation plan, and we have started to monitor...

Shake down sail to Langebaan

The time has come for us to do a “shake down sail” to further test the boat – and ourselves – before the ocean crossing. We decided to...

Discovering South Africa

This week we decided to slow down and take a few days off the boat to explore the region between Mossel Bay and the Storms River, also...

How the boat was built

Last Thursday we visited the factory floor where our boat was built. It was very interesting to see how everything is still very manual,...

Stress Test

A strong South East wind was predicted to be blowing on Saturday, so we decided to take this opportunity to go out and test the boat in...

7½ Weeks!

This is exactly how long it took us to make the boat self-sufficient: we can now efficiently produce our own electricity and make our own...

Enough with work…

We are in the final stretch with the work that needs to be done on the boat. Everything is coming together, and so we took our first...

Three weeks’ worth of work

Today marks the end of the 3rd consecutive week since we took ownership of our boat here in Cape Town. We have been working hard to...