Tracking Pelagic Australis
For those who want to track our voyage from Cape Town to Stanley; you can view the boat’s tracker via the Pelagic Expeditions website via this direct link. Estimated departure is the morning of Wednesday 3rd August.
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Cape Town to Stanley
A screenshot from TZ Navigator V3 showing some of our past trips (in red) and a couple of sketched in options (in blue). The forecast is long range one paused on 12 August and the little blue boat icon shows …
Time out in Cape Town
A couple of pleasant but busy weeks in Tahiti saw Morgane cleaned, maintained, and prepared to be left alone on the hard at the Tahiti Nautic Center . Morgane was very professionally hauled out and parked up by Yvan and …
Tahiti – paradise, not; and expensive to boot.
17:43.94S 149:19.65W Hao was a very pleasant stop but soon it was time to get moving again. We had been continuously watching the weather forecasts looking for a good window to move on to the next destination but as previously …
Winter in Cape Town
While Paula has been beavering away in the rain of Valdivia (or Valluvia as she calls it) I have been busy working with Pelagic Expeditions on the annual refit of “Pelagic Australis” in Cape Town, South Africa. I flew over …
Post Brazil catch-up
So what have I been up to since the “Dodgy” update?Well we finished the dodger in early June, apart from the windows as we didn’t have any acrylic, before I headed of to Rio de Janeiro and Paula headed to …
A Catch Up
"Mogane" in the cradle after pressure washing.
OK so it’s been ages since I last posted in the blog. It’s not because I have forgotten about it but I suppose that I have dropped the habit or something like that.
The painters beat the weather
The weather hasn’t been an easy obstacle to overcome but with some good timing and working a public holiday and a weekend we managed to finish the painting job on Pelagic Australis. The photo shows all the masking still in …
Red spray at midday
A week of more or less good winter sunshine has helped the painters progress well with the work on “Pelagic Australis’” pilot house. The saloon and pilot house have been redecorated and all sorts of odd jobs ranging through all …