After six weeks at sea, I arrive on La Réunion: rubbish, laundry, repairs. A visit from Marinette and hikes through lava fields and misty forests. Then it’s on again: 1500 miles across the Indian Ocean to Richards Bay, South Africa. Calms, fronts, cross seas, giant container ships and the dreaded Agulhas Current. Others do it in ten days, I take 19. Sail it like famous solo sailer Bernard Moitessier may have done it: No engine and take the weather as it comes.
Stories of sea and land
