#cruisinglife — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cruisinglife, aggregated by home.social.
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Sicily, six years ago. Covid lockdown in effect. Our friend got trapped ashore, living on his boat atop a ladder, work unfinished and unable to launch, even if there had been a crane operator.
The boatyard workers gave him the key to the gate and told him they were shutting down until further notice, good luck and by the way there's no running water.
They left him "Merkel" the boatyard dog, too.
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Zooming down "Rio Lidl" in 2020, a small creek on Korfu (Greece) with a very shallow entrance that you can (just barely) navigate by dinghy if you can feel your way past the shallows and an undersea pipeline.
About 10 minutes upriver, you will come to a concrete road bridge. Locals have built ramshackle docks next to and under the bridge, hammer drilling into the structure to attach their fasteners, something that might see you persecuted elsewhere but is perfectly normal in Greece.
Scramble up the side of the bridge and you're on a road which just a few steps apart has a fuel station, a wine shop and across the road, a Lidl supermarket. Supply paradise!
#Greece #CruisingLife #Memories #Lidl #Sailing #Shopping #Korfu
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Typical sailor meetup: Share cake and expertise, in this case about varnish.
Yes that pack says 80 quid on it and that was back in 2016.
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Cruising on our small sailboat, I pulled out the ColReg's for a little light reading.
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Here's an orchid like (?) flower growing on a wild Georgian Bay shoreline across the channel from Killarney Provincial Park.
#bloomscrolling #flowers #ontario #sailing #cruisinglife #killarneyprovincialpark -
I’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 @svtropicaldawn all the way there would be too much. I have never chartered a boat but it might be a good option. #sailing #cruisingLife #boatCharter #Helsinki #GulfOfFinland
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Bad 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.
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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.
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2024/02/09/46-we-made-it-back-to-cape-town/
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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/
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/12/15/44-we-are-almost-ready-to-go-cross-an-ocean/
#Brazil #cruisingLife #JoãoPessoa #orisha #podcast #preparations #Yemọja #Yoruba
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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.
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/12/08/43-our-engine-is-fixed-so-why-are-we-still-in-cabedelo/
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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.
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/12/01/41-ranting-we-are-still-in-cabedelo/
#Brazil #Cabedelo #cruisingLife #dieselEngine #podcast #rant
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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!
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/11/24/41-our-engine-still-isnt-working/
#Brazil #checkingInAndOut #cruisingLife #dieselEngine #podcast
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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 Pipa beach
- Boat outing in Pipa
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/11/17/40-preparations-and-an-outing-to-pipa/
#Brazil #cruisingLife #dieselEngine #newFriends #Pipa #podcast #preparations
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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!
https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/10/27/37-reflections-and-on-big-news/
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Oh yeah. I realised I haven’t posted here for quite a while. We sailed to St Helena, a small island in the middle of the South Atlantic which has terrible and expensive internet so I was hardly online for months. Arrived in Brazil last week and back online and back on Mastodon. So that’s what’s up. Updates from our sailing passages and links to podcast on @svtropicaldawn #brazil #sailing #cruisinglife #SouthAtlantic #whatsup
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I was thinking about how a friend living in a van (which has a diesel engine) described himself as a #dieselpunk. I thought now that I live on a sailboat I’d consider myself a #seapunk. Obviously I’ve discovered since that Seapunk is an #aesthetic and doesn’t have anything to do with a lifestyle or punk. I do feel u want to reclaim the term. And since the aesthetic seems to have run its course and kinda fizzled out it probably is ready to be recuperated. #cruisingLife #sailing #sailpunk
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Chart plotter running OpenCPN on a Raspberry Pi is working great. Have on big screen inside, at the chart table and a smaller touch screen outside. #cruisingLife #raspberryPi #opencpn
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Low tide after the rain. #fakarava #FrenchPolynesia #cruisinglife #beachbar
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Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve is by far one of my favorite parks. It's so massive and mostly untouched because the vast majority of visitors come in on a boat of some kind and don't stay long.
#travel #TravelPhotography #Alaska #paddle #kayak #kayaking #mountains #National Park #GlacierBay #NPS #WaterSPorts #paddling #rainbow #morning #adventure #cruise #cruising #CruisingLife #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #calm #active #outdoors #Nature #NaturePhotography #bay #fjord #color #cloud #weather