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The Voyage of Vega

St Helena – Boney and I

We’ve made it to Antigua and are getting Vega ready to cross the north Atlantic to the Azores. Here’s a look back at our time in St Helena. Wednesday 8th to Friday 17th March 2023 All I knew about St Helena was that it is somewhere in the South Atlantic

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Cape Town

We are in St Helena now, a two week sail from Cape Town, but in the meantime here’s a post about our time in Cape Town. Wednesday 18th January to Wednesday 22nd February 2023 We had made it to Cape Town and were absolutely delighted to be there. The final

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Leaving Cape Town

We’re finally leaving Cape Town at noon today for Antigua in the Caribbean. It should take us 9 weeks including short stops in St Helena & Fernando de Noronha in Brazil on the way. We have spent just over a month here, but Hugh was back in the UK for

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Richards Bay and on Safari

January 29th 2023 Ignore this if you’ve already read it! somehow i managed to bin it but thankfully have managed to restore it from the Bin. I am finishing this post from Cape Town. We spent most of December back in the UK, pleased to see family and friends over

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The dreaded Mozambique Channel

Tuesday 25th October to Monday 7th November 2022 We’d been rather nervous about tacking the notorious Mozambique Channel and in the end it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable passages of our circumnavigation so far.  So why does the Mozambique Channel have such a fearsome reputation? It

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