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Where’s Winter?
Winter this year has been a non-event. Touch wood. No snow or ice to speak of. Strangely, I am a wee bit disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, this South African has not totally changed her mind about winter in Canada – I can do without it. I feel the cold….and prefer not...
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Shipwreck Trail
Cape Town is my favourite city in the world….so far. The mountains, the sea, the gardens, castle, shops, restaurants, action and buzz. Most of all, I love the parks and opportunity for walks and hikes in the city and surrounding countryside. And I love the astonishing...
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Summertime, and the livin’ is easy!
I love the summer. Maybe it’s a hangover from school’s out days. Or maybe it’s my South African blood warming up to a familiar zone in these Northern climes. But summer got even better since we moved onto our boat. And it’s not all about the sailing and the holidays,...
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Croatia’s Charms
Our first two-week bareboat charter in Croatia was a real memory-maker. Croatia is unique, not only for its crystal clear, clean blue sea, but also for a thousand years of different cultures that have replaced each other and sometimes assimilated along the magnificent coastline....
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The Liveaboard Lifestyle
“This sucks!” I exclaim as I hit my head on the companionway while lugging a heavy box of stuff down into the galley with frozen fingers, having slushed my way precariously along an icy dock in minus 20 C weather, while my cart of groceries offers resistance in the mix of...
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Complications of Simple Living
My goal: To Simplify My life. Sound simple? It’s not. In fact, much as I loathe admitting failure, I am pretty sure that this is something that I am just not good at, or perhaps genetically not programmed for, or maybe inherently predestined to fail. I know that simplifying...
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Rum, Sun, Fun
The British Virgin Islands are, for the most part, the stuff dreams are made of: pristine, palm tree lined sand beaches, sultry evenings and sunny days, brilliant bouganvilla laden trellises, pastel hillside houses. Reggae music livens up beach cafes, pelicans and boobies circle...
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Sailing: "The fine art of getting wet and being sick while slowly going nowhere"-Albert Einstein
About Us
Once upon a time Steve and Liz were an ordinary couple living ordinary lives in Toronto. Then they got costly and often fatal disease called sailing mania. They were forced to sell their beautiful home, and get rid of most of their worldly possessions and take to the seven seas!
Our Boat
T’ai Chi is a 42 foot Cabo Rico. Built in 2000, she is a cutter-rigged blue-water beauty, and is Hull #1 of the Chuck Payne designed Cabo Rico 42′ fiberglass monohulls. As her name suggests, she is lithe and graceful.
The Plan
“It pays to plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” or as Winston Churchill said: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning”.
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Winter this year has been a non-event. Touch wood. No snow or ice to speak of....
Cape Town is my favourite city in the world….so far. The mountains, the sea, the...
I love the summer. Maybe it’s a hangover from school’s out days. Or maybe it’s my...
Our first two-week bareboat charter in Croatia was a real memory-maker. Croatia is...
“This sucks!” I exclaim as I hit my head on the companionway while lugging a heavy...
My goal: To Simplify My life. Sound simple? It’s not. In fact, much as I loathe...
The British Virgin Islands are, for the most part, the stuff dreams are made of:...
T’ai Chi: Slow, graceful, continuous, controlled movements….a balance of...