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Janet FraserCruising on our small sailboat, I pulled out the ColReg's for a little light reading.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humour</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cruisinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisinglife</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/georgianbay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#georgianbay</a>

Janet FraserHere's an orchid like (?) flower growing on a wild Georgian Bay shoreline across the channel from Killarney Provincial Park. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ontario</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cruisinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisinglife</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/killarneyprovincialpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#killarneyprovincialpark</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarSeagull looking into the window of a fish & chip shop in Weymouth, 2017.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Seagull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Seagull</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Bird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bird</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Weymouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weymouth</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/FishAndChips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FishAndChips</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Shop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shop</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Window" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Window</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarToday, five years ago. Somehwere in Ionian Greece.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sailing</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greece</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memories</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Island" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Island</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sea</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarGot stung by a wasp, cleverly hiding inside the handle of the sauna bucket.Big wasp hurts a lot 😬Reminded me of when I was pulling up anchor on the foredeck of our boat in Greece and took a step back without looking. Onto a wasp, which stung me into that soft skin between the toes.I had the anchor out of the ground already, so couldn't stop to hold my toe. <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@vaviurka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vaviurka</a> back at the helm was wondering why this routine operation yielded so much swearing until I limped back 😆<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Wasp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wasp</a>

Sailing Tropical DawnJust made a login on <a href="https://www.noforeignland.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.noforeignland.com</a> and have been adding info on the amenities available in Simon’s Town since most recently of those were missing. Would have been to know about this while we were cruising but it’s also just nice to hive back to the cruising community by adding local info. <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/cruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/SimonsTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SimonsTown</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/CapeTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapeTown</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/noforeignland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noforeignland</a>

Tropical DawnWe enjoyed sailing to Brazil and spending time there, we can't really say we "sailed Brazil" as we stayed in one place for four months, but Brazil is definitely worth a sailing visit. Here's a nice article with lots of practical info: <a href="https://blog.noforeignland.com/sailing-along-the-brazilian-coastline/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.noforeignland.com/sailing-along-the-brazilian-coastline/</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Brazil</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SouthAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthAtlantic</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a>

Dimitri DhuyvetterI’ve been dreaming of sailing to/in/around Helsinki since I visited the city seven years ago, before I even got (back) into sailing. But taking our bown at <a href="https://nautical.social/@svtropicaldawn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@svtropicaldawn</a> all the way there would be too much. I have never chartered a boat but it might be a good option. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boatCharter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boatCharter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helsinki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Helsinki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GulfOfFinland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GulfOfFinland</a>

Tropical DawnIt is actually quite impressive to see the South Atlantic circular sail we did the past two years. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SouthAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthAtlantic</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#map</a>

Tropical DawnCouple Who Attempted to Cross Atlantic Found Dead in Lifeboat James Brett Clibbery and his wife, Sarah Justine Packwood, had left Nova Scotia on June 11, bound for the Azores. The authorities recovered remains believed to be theirs earlier this month <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/canada/atlantic-ocean-sailing-deaths.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/canada/atlantic-ocean-sailing-deaths.html</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AtlanticOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AtlanticOcean</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NorthAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthAtlantic</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Azores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Azores</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NovaScotia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovaScotia</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarBad cat. That's her name. Got a passport saying so.Found by a friend, as kitten, in a dumpster, inside a tied up plastic bag. He adopted her as ships cat.Loves to get greasy and once snuck aboard a French sailboat, got spooked, jumped into an open locker and disappeared into the voids of the boat, reappearing in a different locker, covered in black engine oil.The frenchman was grateful, he could never get in there to clean the spill he said.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cat</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/BoatCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BoatCat</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/BadCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BadCat</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memories</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarThe iconic rock of Gibraltar, doing its thing:Pushing up the warm, moist easterly (levanter) seabreeze and cooling it to condensation temperatures, creating a dense cloud that looms over the city. Local British weather at the southern tip of Spain.Its other thing was to provide a high cannon emplacement overlooking the low plains of Spain, making Gibraltar unconquerable through history and inspire the Montgolfier brothers.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Gibraltar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gibraltar</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/TheRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheRock</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weather</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Meteorology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meteorology</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memories</a>

Tropical DawnIf we had the money and the appetite to go sailing again, this boat would definitely check most if not all of our boxes: 1976 Alajuela 38 Cutter for sale Port Orchard, Washington <a href="https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1976-alajuela-38-cutter-8927846/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1976-alajuela-38-cutter-8927846/</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sailboat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailboat</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Alajuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alajuela</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cutter</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cruisinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisinglife</a>

Amgine<a href="https://mastodon.runninginthenight.com/@singlerider" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@singlerider</a> Intense <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/shark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shark</a> population.Is South Pass the main outflow? <a href="https://map.openseamap.org/?zoom=14.9&lon=-145.45765&lat=-16.52324&layers=TFTFFFTFFTFFFFFFTFFFFF&mlat=-16.51528&mlon=-145.46310&mtext=Fakarava+South+Pass" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The chart</a> is less than ideal.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FrenchPolynesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrenchPolynesia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sailing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CruisingLife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SouthPacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthPacific</a>

Dimitri DhuyvetterWe did try and had a lot of fun but on the end living on land proved to suit us better. We never did go back to that 9 to 5 though. 😁 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/getAboatAndSailAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#getAboatAndSailAway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quitYourJob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quitYourJob</a>

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/whitbyBrewerSailboats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#whitbyBrewerSailboats</a> great zoom call with a handful of Whitby42 folks. Talked boats, cruising, bow thrusters, and weather.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#sailing</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sailboats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#sailboats</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cruisinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cruisinglife</a>

Sailing Tropical DawnWe 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.<a href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2024/02/09/reflections-on-day-14-of-our-passage-extra-episode/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2024/02/09/reflections-on-day-14-of-our-passage-extra-episode/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/cruising-life/" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/podcast/" target="_blank">#podcast</a>

Sailing Tropical DawnAfter 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.<a href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2024/02/09/46-we-made-it-back-to-cape-town/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2024/02/09/46-we-made-it-back-to-cape-town/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/cruising-life/" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/passage/" target="_blank">#passage</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/podcast/" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/sailing/" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://svtropicaldawn.blog/tag/south-atlantic/" target="_blank">#SouthAtlantic</a>

Sailing Tropical DawnWe are back home in Cape Town after a 45 day passage from Cabedelo, Brazil. We’ll record a podcast where we tell all about it, should be online Friday. For now all we’ll say is that we are very happy to be back in South Africa. <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/cruisinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisinglife</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/SouthAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthAtlantic</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/CapeTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapeTown</a> <a href="https://nautical.social/tags/SouthAftica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthAftica</a>

PinkyI finally published this blog post that I've been working on for weeks about a passage we made about a month ago. Blogs take time for me, as I write, rewrite, and rewrite again, and then choose and edit photos. I lose interest at times, but I kept coming back to this one because it was a big milestone for us. We're in Florida now - finally in warmer weather! Hopefully that means more writing motivation 😄<a href="https://hooray.computer/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://hooray.computer/tags/sailingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sailingLife</a> <a href="https://hooray.computer/tags/cruisingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruisingLife</a> <a href="https://hooray.computer/tags/nomad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nomad</a> <a href="https://hooray.computer/tags/oceanPassage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oceanPassage</a><a href="https://www.svloka.com/beaufort-nc-to-charleston-firsts-on-the-ocean/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.svloka.com/beaufort-nc-to-charleston-firsts-on-the-ocean/</a>

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