Monday 10 October 2016
We know we have to push hard to get to Inhambane on the Mozambique coast, our first planned shelter point en route to South Africa, by Wednesday evening when southerly winds are forecast. That means we have to work Adina as hard as we can. With the winds slowly picking up but not yet enough…
Sunday 9 October 2016
Adina left the big red island of Madagascar at 0520 local time on Friday 7th October. It was our second attempt forty-eight hours after having returned a bit shell-shocked from a bashing on the first attempt. Understandably we were a little nervous but the weather forecast this time looked more promising. As we left we…
Thursday 6 October 2016
It’s time for Part II of our trilogy of ‘Tough Indian Ocean Passages to Cape Town’. We’ve been monitoring the weather over the past few weeks as Adina tracked south down the west coast of Madagascar, watching for a suitable crossing to South Africa. The challenge is we couldn’t leave too early as we only…