Category: Cruising Stories

South Africa has 11 official languages: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Stephen and I speak English, Afrikaans, and

Aboard Catamaran Zuri -by Our Very Able Crew, The Rainfords The Rainfords bought a catamaran, Persistence (sister ship to Zuri), from us in 2010. We

We have visited more than 118 countries, territories,  and dependencies during our voyages, crossed several oceans, crisscrossed the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Caribbean. On land,

This picture was taken at the southernmost point of the continental USA in the Florida Keys while sailing with friends on our Island Spirit 401,

“St Helena: Robust Mooring Field now Available (21 January 2013)”. This headline from noonsite.com recently caught my eye. I was absolutely delighted to read this news because I

Happy New Year, Catamaran Guru readers (however belated)! We have not posted anything for a long while and I feel a little guilty but we

Like many other Americans here in Florida we will be on our boat “Zuri” today, celebrating 4th of July, enjoying a great barbecue and watching

The year was 1992 and our dream was about to start, or was it? We had just “retired” from very busy careers and lives to