Passage to Namibia
We left Cape Town on Saturday December 15th 2018 with the 13:15 V&A Waterfront marina swing bridge opening. When calling Port Control...
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4 years, 5 continents, 22,000 nautical miles sailed.
The adventure on Sailing Oroboro continues....
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Dec 19, 20183 min
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...
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Dec 9, 20184 min
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...
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Dec 3, 20182 min
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...
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Nov 26, 20182 min
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,...
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Nov 20, 20184 min
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...
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Nov 15, 20185 min
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...
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Nov 4, 20184 min
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...
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Oct 22, 20185 min
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...
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Oct 11, 20182 min
Please meet Sailing Vessel Oroboro
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...
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Sep 29, 20181 min
Cape Town: 33° 54’ 21.9” S – 18° 25’ 15.7” E
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...
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Sep 19, 20181 min
Quitting our jobs
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...
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Sep 3, 20182 min
Choosing the right boat
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...
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Sep 1, 20181 min
About the name of the boat
During the summer of 2017, while sailing on a charter boat with my family towards the Aeolian Islands, Yuka and I were thinking about a...
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