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 feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions, remarks, feedback, or whatever.

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 below, we’d love to hear from you!

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.

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.

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

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 free to follow our progress, check the messages we post and get in touch with us on share.garmin.com/mapshare/svTropicalDawn/

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 tune out for that part.

We are still in Cabedelo, Brazil. We’ll explain where we are with our engine repairs and when we think we’ll leave here. And we get into a rant or two.

We are still ion Brazil and not crossing an ocean. What is happening with our engine and how did we get around coming to the end of our 90 day tourist visa in Brazil? Listen to this week’s episode of our podcast to find out!

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: