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Coromandel - Welcome to our Website! These are the tales of Linda, Andy and
Coromandel – sailing around the world, even though we didn’t intend to. After spending four months in Port Owen with
brother David, we left there on 31 March and set off for the season’s sailing
which will see us in Namibia, St Helena and Brazil. We are both members of the Ocean Cruising
Club, so it’s good meeting other members as we go along and getting
information from both other members’ websites and that of the Club. Take a look at www.oceancruisingclub.org |
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Namibia, St Helena and Brazil - 2012
South Africa December 2011-March 2012 June
2011- Mauritius and La Réunion April-June 2011 - Johor Straits to Mauritius December 2010 - March 2011 Thailand and South
Africa November-December 2010 Johor Bahru, Singapore,
Pangkor and Penang
October
2010, Karimun Jawa, Belitung
August-September
2010 Flores to Bali
July-August
2010 West Timor to Flores
June-July
2010 Vanuatu and Darwin
Feb-March
2009 Pacific Crossing to Fatu Hiva |
On the Sand Dunes with
Braam |
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Welcome to our Home Page, which
describes our adventures - and rather more pedestrian activities! - on board
our Nicholson 35, Coromandel Quest. We bought her in April 2006
and spent just over a year getting used to her and getting both her and
ourselves ready for some long-term cruising. Andy and I left our home
port of Blyth, just north of Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland, on 1 June
2007. Since then we've sailed just over 30,000 miles and are now on our
way across the Indian Ocean towards South Africa. We travelled by way of Scotland,
the Orkney Islands, Northern Ireland, Eire, and quick dash back to Falmouth
then on to La Coruña, Galicia, Portugal, Porto Santo, Madeira, Tenerife and
La Gomera before crossing the Atlantic to Barbados. In the West Indies we visited
only Barbados, Grenada and Carriacou before heading south to Venezuela,
Bonaire and Curaçao, then Panama and the Canal, south to Ecuador and Peru,
spending from June 2008 to February 2009 in South America We spent eight wonderful months
travelling in Ecuador and Peru, visiting such sights as Machu Picchu and
Ingapirca, and cities as far apart as Puno on Lake Titicaca and Otavalo, back
north of the equator. We also visited the high sierras, the dry forest
and deserts of the coast and the Amazon rainforest. We then left for our Pacific
crossing, making landfall in Fatu Hiva before cruising on across French
Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga, then on to New Zealand. After spending the cyclone
season in New Zealand, doing some work on Coromandel and then cruising part
of North Island, we sailed to Port Vila on the island of Efate in Vanuatu,
where we spent a wonderful month among the islands. From there we
sailed direct to Darwin, having been unable to check in at Thursday Island. At the end of July 2010 we left Darwin
for Kupang in West Timor, the first port on our Sail Indonesia Rally and then
spent three months cruising these wonderful islands,
visiting Alor, Lembata, Flores, Sumbawa, Lombok, Bali, Belitung and a host of
little places in between. We also learned a little Bahasa Indonesia. From there we motored to Danga
Bay in Malaysia and visited Singapore before continuing on up the Malacca
Straits to Langkawi, stopping at various points on the way. From Langkawi
we went to Ao Chalong on the island of Phuket in Thailand before making our
way back southwards to leave Indonesia via the Sunda Strait. We have since visited the small
atoll of Cocos Keeling and then made passage across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius,
then on to La Réunion, which has been wonderful by way of walking and food,
and the delightful feeling of being in France - the locals talk about
"the mainland" as if it were the same distance from France as the
Isle of Wight is from England.
From La Réunion we sailed to
Richard's Bay in South Africa, from where we coast-hopped to Port Owen in the
Western Cape via Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The 2012 season will take us to
Namibia, St Helena and Brazil, but we don’t yet know whether we’ll turn right
or left when we get there. |
Diaz Point Lighthouse |
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