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SV Coromandel - Greetings, Earthlings! In 2011 we have cruised down through Belitung, Cirebon and Jakarta in Indonesia, the atoll of Cocos Keeling, Mauritius and the walkers' paradise of La Réunion. From Richard's Bay we made our way to Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth and finally Cape Town. From here we will make the short hop to Port Owen and have a rest for the remainder of the season whilst we stay with David and explore the west coast, do some work on Coromandel and visit the UK. |
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Art Deco Building on Durban's Waterfront 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 |
Durban's Marina |
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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. |
A good reason not to use the Zebra Crossing! 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, where we will stay for a few weeks before cruising on down the coast.
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