Position: 29º 51.798′ S 31º 1.422′ E We are looking forward to heading South tomorrow. The weather window looks good and, if we are lucky, we might be able to push all the way through to Cape Town. This next stretch of coast is called the Wild Coast, and has a reputation for bad behavior. […]

Position: 29º 51.822′ S 31º 1.422′ E Arrived in Durban after the worst single night passage ever. Lucky for us, nothing broke and we are all happy to be here. We’ll spend Christmas and New Years in Durban with our friends, and then continue on to Cape Town and beyond. All is well.

Position: 28º 47.688′ S 32º 4.71′ E We are in Richards Bay, South Africa. I’ve been dreaming about this country since college and it seems fitting that we arrived here on the edge of a gale and on the very same day (4 years later) as we arrived in Brisbane. Everyone is excited to see […]

Position: 27º 33.558′ S 33º 0.42′ E We had a really peaceful night and a fast first day. We are right on schedule. All is well.

Position: 26º 2.832′ S 33º 23.1′ E Hip hip hooray, we are underway, to Richard’s Bay! All is well.

Position: 26º 0.882′ S 32º 53.748′ E We decided that today’s weather window was too tight and the consequences too high, so we are waiting for the next one. All is well.

Position: 26º 0.882′ S 32º 53.748′ E Summers in Round Pond, looking out over Muscongus Sound, I imagined the world as fictitiously vast. My horizon was bounded tightly by Loud’s Island to the East, and New Harbor to the South. Once, when my father took me on an overnight sail to Boothbay Harbor, I was […]

Position: 26º 0.522′ S 32º 52.23′ E Arrived in Maputo, safe and sound. It was a raucous night but we reefed down and enjoyed the ride. Supplies are lean these days. Miles asked if we had straws (to draw lots, of course) and suggested that we had a rendang paste, and a ‘daddy rendang’ might […]