A Boat Called Wanda: Martin, Caro, Jacques & Max-Martin

Leaving Senegal – Notre depart du Senegal

By Caro on 07:13 PM

After almost two months in Casamance and just a week in Gambia, we are now in the Cape Verde Islands with our good friends from France, the Pérés. We are exploring the Barlevento or windward Islands which are in the north of the archipelago. We spent most of our time in Casamance in the mangrove [...]

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(Français) les vacances

By Jacques on 02:03 PM

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Dakar and Casamance

By Caro on 01:55 PM

Hi from Ziguinchor, Casamance. We ended up staying four weeks in Dakar which was an interesting experience, always exciting and sometimes discouraging. We were anchored in front of the Cercle de Voiles de Dakar at Hann Plage, a lovely little yacht club in the palm trees with a lot to offer yachts including wifi and [...]

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By Caro on 03:39 PM

We have just arrived in Ziguinchor (Casamance region of Senegal) after stopping for a week at a little mangrove creek off the Casamance river to visit some friends on another boat. It was wonderful and the kids had friends there too. Even better, yesterday we finished the school year – three months of freedom! Well, [...]

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Dakhla and the desert

By Caro on 09:23 PM

We are now in Dakar, Senegal, but we wanted to tell you about our little adventure in the Sahara. Dakhla is on a sandy peninsula which extends 40 km from the coast. On one side the Atlantic and on the other side a lagoon, astonishing in its beauty. Unfortunately we couldn’t get permission to enter [...]

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We are in Senegal

By Caro on 10:14 PM

We arrived this morning (Tuesday 13 April) in Saint Louis, Senegal after a brilliant six day passage totally under sail. And we saw dolphins, whales, turtles, flying fish and pelicans. We actually took five days but when we arrived we were surprised to find that the channel indicated on our chart to enter the river [...]

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P.S. Still in Dakhla…

By Caro on 07:28 PM

Well, our following wind turned out to be a bit stormy so we are staying here until it calms down…I promise not to write again until we are actually in Senegal!

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Bye bye Morocco

By Caro on 07:15 PM

Tomorrow, Saturday 3 April, we are leaving Morocco after six months, with some sadness because we really love this country. We are planning to sail from Dakhla, Morocco, towards Dakar in Senegal, with a stop in St Louis if the weather lets us. This should take 4 or 5 days, our longest passage yet, and [...]

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Arrival in Dakhla

By Caro on 07:49 PM

Just a note to let you know that we arrived safely in Dakhla, Western Sahara, today, Thursday 25 February. We had a nice sail and not too much motoring. That’s why it took us 72 hours. We even caught a lovely tuna.

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One year at sea

By Caro on 02:54 PM

We have been sailing for one year already – we left Port St Louis the 31st of January 2009. Life on board Wanda seems strangely normal now. We have learnt to live quite simply and we have everything we need. Everyone is happy, school is going very well, and there is so much still to [...]

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The Canary Islands

By Caro on 12:33 PM

We ended up spending three weeks in Agadir, which is a lovely beach resort town but not at all the “real Morocco” that we love. We did enjoy the wild, long Atlantic beach and, best of all, we met up with the Royer family, good friends of ours from Jura, where we used to live [...]

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The Atlantic Ocean

By Caro on 10:56 AM

I am in the cockpit, it’s the morning of the second day of a three day passage from Rabat to Agadir. We are sailing slowly, pushed by a light wind and rocked by a gentle Atlantic swell. The children are with me, eating soup for breakfast! Martin’s sleeping (it’s my watch). Life is good, sometimes [...]

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(Français) Max-Martin au Maroc

By Max-Martin on 07:23 PM

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(Français) Jacques a dit Maroc

By Jacques on 05:56 PM

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Morocco – first impressions

By Caro on 06:32 PM

We’ve been in Morocco for a week now and we do feel at home here, it’s such a warm and friendly country. First we were in the port of Nador which was a real culture shock. It’s a very primitive town, poor and very very dirty. Dispite the difficult living conditions the people are friendly [...]

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Finally the African coast!

By Caro on 04:22 PM

We are now in Melilla which is a Spanish enclave in Morocco. Tomorrow we plan to take care of the formalities to enter Morocco proper and then start to sail slowly towards the port of El Hoceima. We’re finding it really hot here and we all feel something like jet-lagged. We had a good sail [...]

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Max-Martin’s project

By Max-Martin on 04:14 PM

I had an idea….I’m going to takes photos of our play areas. You can see them in our phots in the album called “Coins de jeux par Max-Martin“.

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Slowly towards Africa…

By Caro on 01:30 PM

Cabrera was wonderful and worth waiting for. Great snorkelling and walking, but a bit frustrating not to be able to fish! We loved it so much, we stayed an extra day. Now we are in Formentera which is just south of Ibiza, again waiting for some wind towards Morocco; We think we will leave again [...]

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Leaving Mallorca

By Caro on 09:37 PM

Just a note to let you know that tomorrow we will leave Mallorca. We finally got permission to visit the Island of Cabrera which is a national park and is supposed to be beautiful and it had better be, having waited two weeks for the permit! Then if the wind allows it on Wednesday we [...]

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