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48. What are our future sailing plans

In this episode of our podcast we talk about our future sailing plans now that we are back home in Cape Town.

In this episode of our podcast we talk about our future sailing plans now that we are back home in Cape Town. We are not planning to do weekly podcasts any more for now, but if you like hearing what we are up to you can listen to our weekly Princess and The Big Blue radio show on Radio Free Tankwa, every Wednesday 6pm South African time (GMT+2) which is 1600 UTC in nautical speak. As always…

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47. We are back in South Africa

This week's episode of our podcast is all about why we love South Africa and Cape Town so much and how happy we are to be back!

We are so happy to be back in South Africa, and not just because we were tired of being on the water and love having solid ground under our feet. We both missed the very special country on the southern end of the African continent. In today’s podcast episode we’ll tell you about our experiences in the first week or so of being back and what we love. Feel free to get in touch or leave a comment…

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Reflections on day 14 of our passage (extra episode)

We recorded a podcast episode during our passage from Brazil to South Africa, about two weeks in. Reflections on our departure from Cabedelo and the start of the big South Atlantic passage.

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46. We made it back to Cape Town

After 45 days at sea, crossing the South Atlantic from Cabedelo, Brazil to Cape Town, South Africa, we are back home. It wasn’t an easy passage, and not just because it was our longest yet. We’ll tell all about it in this episode of our podcast.

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45. Brazil, it was great, till next time

An extra podcast we recorded with our friend Fernando and Thalys where we look back at our experience in Brazil and talk about what the differences are between South Africa and Brazil. We are on the South Atlantic sailing from Cabedelo to Cape Town when this episode goes live. Check out exactly where we are and feel free to message us on https://share.garmin.com/svTropicalDawn

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44. We are (almost) ready to go cross an ocean

This week on our podcast we talk about our last minute preparations ans our offerings to the orisha of the water.

We are almost done with preparing to cross the South Atlantic back to Cape Town. We got our rigging checked and our winches are serviced. We also made an offering to Yemọja and got to experience and celebrate some of the Yoruba religion here in João Pessoa, Brazil. We’ll be out at sea from Sunday and won’t be able to get any messages or replies except for via our Garmin InReach so please feel…

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43. Our engine is fixed, so why are we still in Cabedelo?

This week on our podcast: our engine's fixed, so what are we still doing in Brazil? And what happened this week?

Our engine is finally fixed, but we are still in Cabedelo, Brazil, so what’s up with that? Listen to find out. We also complete our the safety inspection for the boat, tasted a delicious chocolate pizza and pizza pie, Brazilian style. Content warning: towards the end of the podcast we talk about violence and safety and something unpleasant we saw, there is a warning in the podcast so you can…

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40. Preparations and an outing to Pipa

This week on our podcast: The engine is finally back inside the boat and we are preparing for our big passage from Brazil back to Cape Town. We went on a nice weekend outing to Pipa with our Brazilian friend Thallys.

The engine is finally back inside the boat and we are preparing for our big passage from Brazil back to Cape Town. We went on a nice weekend outing to Pipa with our Brazilian friend Thallys. Some photos and videos of our Pipa weekend getaway: Thallys, Kay, and Dimi drinking some agua de coco Video edit of our outing to Pipa The Toyota Banderante we went on a 4×4 tour of Pipa in Walking on…

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39. Splash! We are back in the water

On this week's episode of our podcast: the boat is back in the water and the engine parts have finally arrived!

We went back in the water, after finishing painting a few new layers of anti fouling, checking the seacocks, replacing the anodes and a few other things. Other great news is that the parts for the engine have finally arrived so hopefully it will be repaired soon!

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38. Forró dancing and gender roles

In this week's episode of our podcast we talk about gender roles on board and about going forró dancing.

This week we talk about gender roles within the sailing context and how the principle of “there can only be one skipper on board” can conflict with relating as equals within a romantic partnership. But before that, we talk about what we did this week, such as learning to dance Forró and Coco getting pricked. Some links to the things we talk about: Wikipedia article about Forró music and…

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37. Reflections and/on Big News

This week's episode of our podcast: reflections on our wedding anniversary and the big news we shared recently.Good news regarding our engine, and dancing!

This week we are reflecting on some big news we shared with the world as well as on the fact that we got married exactly 4 years ago. We have some good news regarding our diesel engine repairs and have been enjoying the Brazilian music and food. If you have any questions, comments, feedback, or just want to say hi: Get in touch!

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Made a logo for our podcast

Just messing around with Freeform on the iPhone. What do you think?

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36. Boat outings in João Pessoa

On this week's episode of our podcast: we made a few different boat outings here in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.

This week we made a few different boat outings here in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Dimi went sailing on a dingue, a Brazilian made Sailing dingy, with our friend Fernando. We watched the solar eclipse, right here in Jacaré at the marina. We went snorkelling to the Piscinas do Seixas, getting there on a pirate boat. And we went on another boat outing to Areia Vermelha, all right here in João…

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Follow us on Mastodon

All posts, including new podcast episodes, are now automatically shared on Mastodon and any other app or website that uses ActivityPub. If you are using Mastodon, just type “@svtropicaldawn.blog@svtropicaldawn.blog” in the search and you should find us. You’ll be able to like, re-share, and comment on all our posts. See you on the fediverse! We already had this Mastodon profiles, which we’ll…

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Sorry for the spam!

We uploaded all our existing podcast episodes to our WordPress blog. This might have caused some excessive spamming from our side. Sorry for that! We are done with the migration so only new episodes will appear in your timeline.

We uploaded all our podcast episodes to here on our blog/website, so we won’t be dependant on Podomatic or any other podcast hosting platform and we save some money this way. I’m not sure anyone is getting our newsletter, if you don you would have been getting a whole lot of emails over the last few days, sorry for that! I haven’t been able to switch off the “send Newsletter” feature when adding…

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10. AfrikaBurn

This week, as a lot of our friends are preparing to go to AfrikaBurn, we are somewhere in the South Atlantic between the African continent and the island of St Helena. We recorded this episode before leaving for this passage and we talk about how going to AfrikaBurn prepared us for sailing, cruising life , and crossing an ocean. We mention the similarities between a burn and what we are doing now…

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3. Lüderitz

This episode of our Tropical Dawn podcast is about the town of Lüderitz in Namibia we sailed to in our little boat, our adventures there and some of the people we met there, including a recording of part of the conversation we had with Andries/Eiitango Jetango. We edited the recording of our conversation because this episode is already quite long but we’ll upload the whole recording here as a…