We left Cape Town on Saturday December 15th 2018 with the 13:15 V&A Waterfront marina swing bridge opening.  When calling Port Control...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

As we got on the docks at Cape Grace marina and we saw Oroboro for the fist time, we were just ecstatic!  It looked more beautiful than...

After 2 long flights and a 6 hours layover in Zurich, we landed in Cape Town, South Africa.  First time for both of us in the Southern...

Breaking free from the safety and familiarity of a job you love is no easy feat. The worries about leaving behind the security of a...

The research of the right boat for us took a few years and was a complex process. Without going into too many details, these are a few of...

In the summer of 2017, while sailing with my family on a charter boat toward the breathtaking Aeolian Islands, Yuka and I found ourselves...