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Impi
Cape Town
Left Cape Town in 2011 on our Lagoon 440 Impi for our first circumnavigation which we completed 12 years later in 2023. Most of our time was spent in the South Pacific on animal welfare. We left Cape Town again in 2024 and have just spent 6 months in Brazil. We are slowly making our way to Florida. Our skills? Yoga teacher and chef, master diver, civil engineer, diesel mechanic, weather guru and musician.
Arrived in Fort Lauderdale! 2000nm on engines from Suriname where we were dismasted. May 2025 bring on a new mast!
Hello everyone! We have headed further West and we are now in Culebra! Luckily the seas were from behind as it was choppy. Nice to arrive behind the reef here and chill!
Getting ready for the departure to US Virgin Islands
A promising start of the day at Sopers Hole. Lots to do and lunch at Pussers!
So we are in Sopers Hole for a few days to repair our radar. Give us a shout if you are near!
Happy to be back in the beautiful Virgin Islands! A place to sail to in any wind!
Bruised but not beaten. After being dismasted in Suriname we rebuilt a temporary cross beam and mini mast and have headed to Martinique. The repairs here will take to long so further north we go!
Getting ready to motor out of a brown river, our version of hell!
Well today we cut the mast up so for the next couple of weeks, Impi will be a motor boat!
Hey guys! We will soon be out of here! Or so we hope! Constructing a crossbeam and provisional anchor beam and heading out as a motor boat to Martinique. Who said sailing is living the dream? 🫤
We have been meeting a disaster here after hitting an object in the water.
Light winds and flat seas brought us from Kourou, French Guiana to the Suriname River.
Probably the nicest fish I have ever tasted and delicious with chimichurri and friends.
Ethanol in the fuel in Brazil caused our Suzuki four stroke to fail! So glad it had been sorted here in French Guiana!
Hello everyone from the brown Kourou river! Nevertheless a spectacular dawn, with a chorus of bird song. A little later this interesting craft with Ariane 6 on board came cruising past Impi. Ariane 6 will have the flexibility to launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as Earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation. How do they keep the boat so white going up and down this muddy river????
The predicted squalls arrived last night and with it this morning a double rainbow! We spent an amazing night with friends reflecting on the harsh lives of the bagnards stationed here, most of them dying within 6 months of arrival. This afternoon we’ll motor up the river to town as we need fresh stuff and a dinghy motor service. Seems Suzuki doesn’t like Brazilian fuel!
