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Nesi
Santa Barbara
Hi we’re Kristian and Sabrina. We’ve been cruising full time for the past 10years, mostly in the South Pacific. Sabrina is a former ICU nurse, but since turned mermaid galley goddess and Kristian is our intrepid captain. We are on our third sailing boat now, a 60ft Eleuthera and have 4yr old identical twins aboard 🧜♀️🧜♀️ We are slowly circumnavigating while world-schooling. We frequently host visitors and friends as we manage and operate a sailing cooperative (Green Coco Sailing). We run family friendly, participatory, sailing trips…aways trying to harvest as much stoke as possible. We love to SCUBA, surf, beach comb, teach sailing and breath work, yoga, dance and eat yummy foods. We work hard, and play harder. We are currently in the Atlantic Ocean making our way towards Caribbean. Come join us! YouTube channel @GreenCoconutRun ⛵️💫🌎🤙🏽
Exciting passage up the coast from peninsula de Marau, straight shot to Recife. We chose to ride just ahead of an incoming system. For the most part, we had great sailing. Then the squalls starting catching up making for an exciting day and night. Dodging ships in lumpy seas with extra strong winds. Yeeehaw! T’was a doozy. Happy to be safely anchored in a marina as the storm approaches…
Had a great sail up the coast of Brazil, since this is against the predominant northeasterly trades, we waited for a cold front (late May) and rode the southerlies. The strategy of leaving a day before the front paid off, motored 18hrs in calm seas, then we were ahead of the front and got mellow rain. Winds blew SW then clocked to SSE so we managed a broad reach the whole way, mostly 15-20kts breeze but blew steady 30kts for nearly 12hrs at one point, we were under 2nd reef main and 1/2 genoa and full power. Lumpy seas but overall great ride. Happy to now be in Abrolhos!
We left Langebaan lagoon near Saldanha, en route to Luderitz. Had a smooth 3 night passage, with mostly winds at our back, flying wing and wing or spinnaker most of the time. Arriving in Ludertiz we experienced some catabatic winds that accelerated to 40knots!! Glad to be safely anchored, and ready to explore the dunes!
We stopped at the most incredible uninhabited island, Dassen, for the night. So reminiscent of California Channel Islands. Bull kept forests, TONS of birds flying overhead, mama and baby humpback whales swimming around, cormorants & white pelicans sunning themselves and so many penguins you could see hanging out on the beach, a couple curious ones even swam out to our boat to check us out! So cool!!! Would have loved to spend more time there but unfortunately not only is it forbidden to go to shore, we also had to get to Saldanha bay for a scheduled haul out. So it was time to carry on…
This was one of the only times in my past 10 years sailing that i was flashing back to my previous life as an ICU nurse. The overnight passage left us all with very little sleep, highly jacked up on adrenaline. The night started dodging container ships around point agulas, then around 2a our hydraulic steering hose blew a massive leak and we lost steerage several times as it continued to trouble us until 5am. We were going thru so many bottles of atf as we attempted to repair the rupture…With pink atf fluid everywhere it was reminiscent of open heart surgery… but we managed to stent out hydraulic hose using a Jerry rigged hose on top of the hydraulic one with so many hose clamps holding it in place to contain the rupture and allow us to make it thru the night. Despite the chaos, once again the kids slept thru the night like champions and the following morning was gorgeous and calm with whales and dolphins as we limped our way around the cape of good hope into Cape Town! Definitely earned our arrival!
