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Welcome to Land Rats. We're Refitting a 34 ft van der Stadt in the middle of Sunny South Africa, It's Dusty it's warm and it's no place to be building a boat, but that's not stopping us. We're Drinking beers, Making mistakes and Working on this Yacht. We've got lots of work ahead and you can keep an eye on this channel if you want to see how we do it. The Plan is to become full-time Cruisers, we definitely won't have the nices boat out there but we don't care. We're here to Live and See the world and Rats have a tendency to pretty persistent. New Video Every Sunday
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We're exploring some Brazilian rivers in cities this episode, after our ocean crossing it's time to do some relaxing, and that is exactly what we do. We spend a few days in Salvador fixing the boat and exploring some more before we set off once again on a 35 mile sail down the coast towards one of the...
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Make sure to watch part one in the following link if you havn't yet:
Our journey Continues, after some much-deserved rest at St Helena we set off again on the longer part of our Atlantic ocean crossing an exceptionally long 20 days at sea putting it at a total of 33 days to sail from Africa to South...
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The time is now! We're starting our South Atlantic Crossing Sailing, We spent about a week in Luderitz Namibia and it's time to set off. We're planning on at least 11 to 15 days at Sea before a quick stop at ST Helena Island.
Our Sailing Adventure starts out overlooking the surprisingly cold this time...
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We Left South Africa, Our First International Sailing Trip. Although South Africa and Namibia have quite a lot in common and we have visited Namibia before there is something magical in finnally crossing an international border with your boat. Especially if the plan is to cross a lot of international...
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a Place called the Groen Wasmasjien (Green Washingmachine) isn't something I take lightly so when keeping an eye on the wind for this passage i was looking for something under 15 knots and a couple of equally calm days before so as not to leave us with much residue swell. When we found our window and...
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In this episode, We are out Sailing Again. We're leaving Knysna and Heading for Simonstown in false bay. We Really enjoyed our time in Knysna but all good things come to an end and we need to keep moving. We left the heads at high tide late in the afternoon the wind was light and we had no issues leaving....
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In this week's episode we talk a little about our time in Knysna as well as give a little information about the place before heading off for our first time at anchor. We've never been at anchor before always tying up against a dock somewhere and rather sailing than testing it out while we we're out and...
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In this episode, we leave East London and the beautiful Buffalo river yacht club with our steel sailing vessel and head over to Knysna 300 NM along the coast. Before we leave East London we have to do some quick sail repairs and obviously do some quick route planning.
The Sail was a lot calmer than...
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It's the toughest and most difficult sail we've done to date. Sailing the South African wild coast. 312 nautical miles of unsheltered coastline. No stops no options just 2 ports. With a hell of a lekker current in between, that is if you're going the right way.
This week's episode sees us doing the...
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This week's episode is all about skipper tickets, we've received our day skipper and coastal skipper within a month of each so we could start sailing. This video starts off with a lot of talking (the business) about getting a SAS Skipper Ticket. That's the South African Sailing Skipper ticket, We brush...
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Welcome to another episode, believe it or not, this one was actually finished in time but took me more than 3 days to upload. Late or not here you have it. Late September just after completing my Day skippers ticket we set off for our next trip to Richards Bay, the water is a whole lot cleaner there...
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This week we've got a short episode of our sail around Durban Harbour for Bart's Bash. We had some visitors on the boat going out for their first sailing experience so what better day than taking them out when all the other boats are out and about as well.
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