Read more about the article We Were Marooned: One Couple’s Experience as Crew in Thailand

We Were Marooned: One Couple’s Experience as Crew in Thailand

We spent the better part of a year designing and planning a “Sea-bbatical”, which for us, was the odd combination of one month sailing the islands of Guadeloupe in The Lesser Antilles, followed up by flying to the other side of the earth for six weeks of exploring Thailand by all modes of transit, including sailing. We have been fortunate enough to sail the Caribbean waters several times, so the piece-de-resistance of this adventure was to be spending the last few weeks sailing the Andaman Sea of Thailand.

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Nautical Safari to Tanzania

In October 2015, I purchased a Richard Woods Elf 26 catamaran in South Africa. But it wasn’t until 2017, after a major refit in Gordon’s Bay, South Africa that she was delivered to Watamu, on Kenya’s Indian Ocean North Coast. That voyage took some three or four months of sailing over a period of almost nine months. 

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ConnectOcean: Educating and Connecting People With Our Most Valuable Resource

You probably know that 71% of our planet is covered in water, or that an estimated 350 million jobs globally are linked to our oceans. But lesser known facts about oceans include an estimation that one BILLION  people in developing countries depend on fish as their primary source of protein, or that 90% of the world’s fisheries are categorized as either “fully exploited,” “overexploited,” or “depleted”.

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