False Summits in Africa

Five hundred years ago, before GPS and AIS, before paper charts and sextants, Portuguese and Dutch sailors were picking their way down the African coast looking for a waterway to the east. Bartolomeu Dias was the first to round the

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Indian Crossing

I crossed the Indian Ocean under sail: nearly 7,000nm/8,000mi/13,000km, just under three months shore to shore, 47 days underway, stopping in Indonesia, Christmas and Cocos Keeling Islands, Mauritius, Reunion and South Africa.  We entered the Indian Ocean on 04 September

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