Knysna to Cape Town

Green Coco Sailing

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!