Author: Edwin Voskamp
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A Friendly Whale Visiting With Vingilótë
While sailing back from Cape Town a whale paced us. As I was driving the boat, I only got a shot after making certain our courses didn't intersect and it was already diving: you can use make out a...
Lunch While Anchored at Clifton Beach
Sunday we went out for a bit, sailed down to Cape Town to get some drone shots of Vingilótë against Table Mountain, to tour the Inner Harbor of Cape Town. We had a blast. We ran down wind with the...
The Happy Crew of Vingilótë
Vingilótë is something else. She's comfortable and a boat load of fun to sail!
A View from the Water
I made 23 trips to Cape Town from May 2016 through November 2019. All but six times of that I stayed at the Radisson Blu on the Waterfront, a lovely hotel with phenomenal staff, and a large terrace...
Tuna Steaks
We were in the harbor of Hout Bay, where Jonathan knows everybody it seems. One of his friends, a professional fisherman, wandered off with him and came back with an enormous chunk of tuna that had...
Meet the SA-only crew: Jonathan Paarman
Jonathan is one of the founders of Nexus Yachts, a former world championship surfer, and serious offshore sailor. He oversees all the work of building Balance Catamarans at the St. Francis factory....
In Hout Bay Marina
Vingilótë’s first trip is complete. 354 nm in 42 hours. We slowed down the last four hours or so to get to the Hout Bay Marina in daylight, so we figure we could have made it in 39 hours.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Happy Thanksgiving y’all!