Sailing Across the South Atlantic
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We maintain two websites - www.NineOfCups.com, our original website which we began circa 2002, and www.JustALittleFurther.com, our newer website. Both websites contain literally hundreds of pages of info, ranging from exotic sailing destinations and the sailing life, to van life, trekking, biking and how-to articles and videos. Unfortunately, the NineOfCups website is becoming more and more obsolete and unusable - especially on mobile devices… the web-building tools from 2002 were nowhere near as functional as those available now.
A page from the old website. It’s dated and clunky but still readable - unlike many of the other pages.
The list of all the old pages to be updated
We don't want to lose all the old stuff, so we've been working to update, move and incorporate the old webpages into JustALittleFurther, but it's been a slow process. We can cut and paste much of the old text, although it does require quite a bit of editing - a lot of the old information is out of date or no longer of interest. We then have to locate the original photos and sketches and plop them into the newly updated pages. Finally, once we’re happy with the updated page, we replace the old webpage with a link to the new one. All that to say that's why we've been so slow at posting new blogs.
What you see if you visit an updated www.NineOfCups.com page
On the plus side, it's been fun going back and looking at all those webpages. Much like looking at a stash of old photo albums, I often find myself getting lost in all the memories.
A case in point was one of our South Atlantic crossings on Nine of Cups. (We sailed across the South Atlantic three times, once from Uruguay to Cape Town, via Tristan Da Cunha Island, once from Cape Town to French Guiana via Lüteritz, Namibia and St. Helena Island, and once from Cape Town to Charleston, SC, via St. Helena and Ascension Islands.) The passage from Cape Town to French Guiana was especially pleasant - no storms, the things that broke were repairable, and, except for the horse latitudes near the equator, the winds were generally good.
We documented the passage in our bogs and in the webpages devoted to Namibia and St. Helena Island.
We also took a lot of video footage on the passage, and made a YouTube video, Crossing the South Atlantic on a Sailboat. It's a fun, ~six minute video that's intended to give you an idea of what it’s like to make a long passage on a sailboat - in this case, 43 days at sea. We’ve just updated the video and thought you might enjoy it. Here's the link.
Okay - enough dillydallying. Time to get back to updating webpages.
See you next week…