Circumnavigation 2020 onwards
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Highlight reel! With our friends on SV Anne Charlotte, we crossed the India Ocean, stopping in the Maldives and Socotra, heading up the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, transiting the Suez Canal and arriving in the Mediterranean.
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Sudan
Canada’s Prime Minster Mark Carney is polling high amongst Sudanese men, ages 18-25 years. Carney is a conversation point, second only to stats on all…
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Djibouti & Eritrea
Sailing into the Red Sea takes us through the Bab El-Menab Strait that the Houthis have not yet closed in solidarity with Iran.
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Socotra, Yemen
Politically and culturally, Socotra is to Yemen as Hawaii is to the US. On the island, the people speak Socotri, an old unwritten language, and…
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The Maldives
Oceanic Whitetips are on the critically endangered list and in Nov 2025, they were added to CITES Appendix 1, the highest protection prohibiting any trade.…
● About Us
Yo! It’s Ann and Ian on our 1984 Wauquiez Amphitrite. Photos & blog by Ann, keeping us afloat and moving forward by Ian.
● Of interest
The UN High Seas Treaty came into force Jan 17 2026 – we can have 30% of Oceans a marine park and have a well-regulated global fisheries. Lobby your government if they have not yet ratified it. Looking at you Canada!
Great podcast from Outside Magazine about military parajumper training in breath holding
See this story of Cook Islanders shipwrecked on Minerva Reef in 60s (film coming soon)
BBC Planet Earth: pack hunting – first documentation of snakes hunting the marine iguana in Galapagos
Book Rec’d: Christina Thompson The Sea People on ancient Polynesian Navigation (this is sooo good)
Sailing Afrikii 