Karl & Kara Go Sailing

Thursday 19 th March, somewhere in the South Atlantic. One week out of Namibia and having a slow day in light winds but at least it's sunny and fairly warm. We're in a particularly quiet spot where we seem to be the only life forms – no shipping, no birds, no fish (I saw one shoal of flying fish two days ago), hardly any night-time bio-luminescence and even the moon is about to desert us. Still, no Covid-19! So we said our goodbyes to Lüderitz – had a last night at the yacht club with the crew of Tao 8 and a last night at the very warm, cosy and smoke-filled (from their fire, not cigarettes) Barrels for a final bit of gemütlicheit before we left.  Me outside the Lüderitz Yacht Club Our favourite supermarket, the food's ok. The bit ships get a bit close while they're turning - see Gráinne just at its stern. The departure paperwork was remarkably unremarkable but we did find a fish shop next door to the port office and couldn...

Lüderitz, Namibia. Monday 9 th March. Well we got back to Gráinne and she's still floating. Tao 8 were here to wave a welcome – they're now moored just off our stern having arrived from Cape Town while we were away. It's kindof nice to be back, Lüderitz is feeling a bit like home. There's a new big ship in that's just starting to load lots of something or other this morning. It looks like we'll have a weather window to leave on Thursday or Friday (the 13th!) this week so the next few days will be back to busy preparations. Now I'll bore you with the rest of our brilliant Namibia trip, there's absolutely no sailing in this bit, just a shameless collection of holiday photos. You have been warned. Namibia has been really gorgeous. It's a big country by area but with only about 2.5 million population and most of them in the far north. We've passed through mainly very small rural villages and very large agricultural properties. And t...