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We spent 4 months exploring this epic African city! Cape Town turned out to be by far my favorite summer city! At this point we’d been moving constantly for over 13 months and where more than ready to taste the city life again! And it was cheap too! The exchange rate gave us a really sweet deal. So guess what we did after months out on the water? Sat in the air-conditioned movie theater snacking on popcorn, took long hot showers, ate bacon for breakfast and climbed mountains! We also decided to throw a little video competition, to find our new crew for next seasons adventure! Hope you enjoy, it was a tricky but awesome video to make ???? Much Love, Karin and the crew!

Sailing from Cape Town to La Reunion is an off-the-beaten-track 3,000 NM route in some of the roughest waters on the planet. Delos is ready and our new crew has arrived! Time to head to the islands for the winter so we say goodbye to Cape Town and point the bow out into the grey, misty morning. First stop- La Reunion. This was definitely going to be one of our most intense passages ever! We start out with having to sail back around the most Southern tip of Africa, a gnarly stretch of water! But I love how you get to know our three new crew members and how they feel as we get forced into a small harbor to dodge a massive storm coming our way! an intense start to our passage for sure! Hope you enjoy this sailing adventure! Much love, Karin and the crew!

Sailing up the Wild coast! We loose sight of land as we turn east across the strong Agulhas Current, Sailing into the big Southern Indian Ocean! A rough sea unchecked by any land, and we felt it! Struggling to keep our food down Delos starts taking in water through the bow thruster and that’s not our only water leak :( This rough weather really made us appreciate the small things in life like being able to put a glass down without it flying away or taking a shower for the first time in 7 days! This was an epic episode to make and it was so cool to work together with Kiril mixing in an awesome Kiril style of editing! Much Love to you all –Karin and the Crew!

In this episode we sail through the roaring 40s and it was crazy! Definitely the most intense part of our 3000NM passage from South Africa to La Reunion. We had wind speeds of over 50kn, 23–32ft (7–10m) waves and in the middle of everything our autopilot breaks and it’s hand steering from now on! A bit of a tester as our new crew have not hand steered before. Our whole world was getting slammed and tossed around in the waves and I think Brady described it pretty well “It feels like if your driving a car, with your eyes closed on a bumpy dirt road for days. Knowing your going to hit a tree but not knowing when you’re going to hit that tree. So all of a sudden you’re just driving and BOOM!“

The last stretch of our epic 3000NM passage from South Africa to La Reunion. Sadly we get struck with another equipment failure when our Satellite phone catches on fire, and we lose all means of communication with the outside world :/ Totally scary! But luckily the weather finally started to calm down from 40-50kn to only about 25-30kn! :D This made us all feel a little bit more human, Karin started baking, Brian started fixing some of our broken systems and we even caught our first fish! And after 15 days at sea we finally spotted land! :D Much love from a crew that’s so stoked to set foot on solid ground again!

After sailing 3,000 miles from Cape Town, La Reunion Island absolutely blew us away with its natural beauty and friendly people! It’s just a small speck in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but has incredible hiking, waterfalls, diving, surfing, and culture. We’re really excited to show you a little bit of this paradise!

La Reunion Island is just a small speck in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but has incredible hiking, waterfalls, diving, surfing, and culture. In this episode we get to go diving in the beautiful waters and explore Piton de la Fournaise, a very active volcano!

heck out our goodness on Instagram! @svdelos Delos takes to the air! an unforgettable experience flying the smallest airplane ever, over this incredible island. It was incredible to see all the places we’ve been exploring over the last few weeks from a completely new perspective! We drive up to the historical town of Cilaos and take on one last epic hike to a crazy waterfall. Before it was time to get ready for our sail to Mauritius! Reunion just blew our minds! who knew this tiny island could have so much to offer!! Hope you enjoy our last adventure on this paradise island! Much love, Karin and the crew!

Sailing from La Reunion to Mauritius is just a short 150 mile hop! In this episode we get our autopilot parts fixed, check out of amazing La Reunion, and set sail on a 150NM overnight passage to Mauritius. We see some pretty good conditions and make the sail in less than 24 hours, finding us arriving for an amazing sunrise! We tie up to the customs dock and get checked in so we can begin exploring Mauritius!

After a short passage from La Reunion we arrive in Mauritius! We go through the process of checking into a new country, meet some awesome local peeps and spend our last week together with Carmen partying, laughing and enjoying life!

After a week of being in Mauritius we finally settle into the cruising life! It was amazing to finally be at anchor again :) Brady's girlfriend, Camilla, fly's in to join us for some smiles , laughter , party and exploring! Lots of love to you guys :)

As Dillon is paddle boarding back to Delos one night there is a bit of a mishap and he knocks his tooth out! We do a night diving mission to try and find it...... Then in a random connection we end up going to see the epic GoodLuck Live Band at a local resort! After the concert we start sailing south and decide to give our new splash drone a shot...uh oh!

The crew takes a road trip around Mauritius to check out some local sites including the 7 colored sands and then go on a mission to find a grounded bulk carrier! While waiting for our permit to come through for St. Brandon Shoals we go on the hunt for wrecks to scuba dive on and end up hitching a ride on a fucking submarine to an actual wreck! Yeeeeewwww!

Imagine rocking up to a perfect, uninhabited atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. You drop your hook, hit the beach, and enter ultra chill mode... Join us for some babes, beach, and burgers action in St. Brandon Shoals! After Kiril and Dillon leave Delos to continue their travels to Vietnam, the rest of us prepare for our sail to one of the most remote places we've ever been! After a rough but short sail we arrive in Paradise!

Wanna know what paradise looks like? Man, this place is incredible! Take crystal clear water, sprinkle some pure white sand beaches around then put Delos right in the middle! No people no internet just us and thousands of birds. As we explored more and more of St. Brandon we found ourselves wearing less and less clothes. I like the way Brady described the feeling “it’s so freeing being naked in nature!” Being buzzy with treasure hunting and relaxing under the palm trees we didn’t pay enough attention to the tide and got stranded on the wrong island with a small ocean between us and Delos! Rooky mistake but luckily brady could come to our rescue!

With a severe tropical storm moving our way fast we decide to start our 575NM passage from the remote sandy beach island of St. Brandon to Pirate Bay in isle St. Marie, Madagascar! And what a passage, one of my favorites actually! Conditions where great, with a steady 25 knots behind the beam Delos was cruising along at 8kn. Incredible sunsets and dolphins playing at the bow, what more can you ask for? :D Before we knew it three days had past and we spotted the island of Madagascar on the horizon, what a fantastic feeling to be back in this beautiful country! Hope you will enjoy this incredible passage as much as I did! Much love, Karin and the crew!

After some 6000 NM and almost a year later we arrive back in Madagascar and whoow it felt good to be back! Our first stop - Isle St Marie, a small island with a crazy pirate history and one of the world only pirate grave yards.. totally cool!! I think we all felt a little like kids going on our treasure hunt on “Pirate island” where legend has it the Flaming Cross of Goa is hidden! We have a blast sailing around this part of the world, Hope you like :D Much love, Karin and the crew!

This video can be perfectly summed up in my favorite Madagascar phrase “Mora Mora” it literally means “slowly slowly” simply - things happen when they happen. We meet awesome locals that show us some incredible hidden gems, beautiful waterfalls, crazy wild life and pristine beaches. This is what Madagascar is all about! And then the exciting day had come to pick up our crew contest winners Greg and Chyanne from the ferry! :D New crew!! Wiiii!

We set off on our first adventures with our new crew Greg and Chyanne! After quite a few failed attempts to find a good dive spot we finally find some epic scuba diving! With heaps of fish and giant lobsters! After all the diving we decide to go land exploring, and what better way to do it, than driving scooters around the Island. But without internet or any sort of map we of course manage to get lost and end up on a crazy dirt road out in the bush! hope you enjoy this muddy adventure! :D Much love, Karin and the crew!

Our favorite sail blows up on an epic afternoon of downwind sailing.... Rounding the gnarly northern cape of Madagascar we make incredible speed in 40 knots of wind as usual :) We catch a killer Mahi-Mahi, a spectacular Big Eye Tuna, and have a hell of a sail to a calm anchorage on the west coast of Madagascar where we feast on fresh sushi :)

After rounding the gnarly northern cape of Madagascar we make it to an amazing remote limestone island! The timing was perfect as the wind calmed down for us to enjoy a full day of diving, climbing and enjoying the beach!

Reunited and it feels so good!!! After one year and 6,500 NM we sail back into a familiar anchorage in Nosy Be, Madagascar! It's so nice to be around good friends :) We take Greg, Chyanne and Camilla to some of our most favorite anchorages to see lemurs, turtles and smiling faces!

Sailing and Island hopping around Nosy Be is some of the best we’ve ever seen! we set sail back towards crater bay as we had to say a sad goodbye to Camilla, that was catching a flight back to Sweden. Leaving the incredible Lemur island, we did another stop at the tiny island of Tanikely! The diving here is mind-blowing and just as I was swimming around a big coral head! boom! A rare beautiful Zebra shark was resting on the sea floor! Incredible :D We then set of on a epic sailing weekend to a super protected bay where we meet some familiar faces! Hope you Like :D Much love, Karin and the crew!

Sailing around the world also has its darker moments… In this episode the crew deal with a local in Madagascar trying to steal Maggie, the beloved dinghy, in the middle of the night. We go on a man hunt and try and bring the thief to justice!

Sailing through Madagascar for Kazza's birthday week extravaganza!!!! We set out from Nosy Be for a week full of wicked sunsets, incredible scuba diving, a solar eclipse, and even nearly waking up with Delos aground during a massive tide. Enjoy, peace and love from BBK!

After a year of progress our good friend Flo has finished his traditional Madagascar sailboat! He invited us along to buddy boat with him to some incredible spots around Nosy-Be! It was an unforgettable experience to see the local culture up close and good a good dose of beautiful sailing at the same time.

We set off on a Delos Dives Madagascar Expedition! We’d heard rumors about a few epic dive sites only a day sail away from our trusty anchorage in Nosy be! So we picked up the hook and prepared for a week of just diving! Using the drone, our depth sounder and the charts we where able to find some incredible dive sites, teeming with fish, turtles, colorful coral and Brady even spotted this first seahorse!! Wooopwoop! It’s been awesome to edit together all this underwater footage! hope you enjoy it as much as me! Much love, Karin and the boys!

In this action packed episode we meet up with Tonya and Ben, one of the finalists from our "I wanna be a Delos pirate" video competition! We hang out for a few days in Madagascar, take them diving on our sub-wing behind Maggie, and then go out in search of the biggest fish in the world- the amazing beautiful whaleshark!

We leave our beloved Nosy Be and begin the sail South towards South Africa! Along the way we decide to stop at a place called Moromba Bay, which looks really sweet on the charts. It turns out to be an epic place to explore. We load Maggie up with our gear and take off, flying the drone above us. We discover a cave then an amazing little gem of a beach that we have all to ourselves for an incredible afternoon of chilling and beach BBQ :)

Sailing Action! We leave Madagascar for the 1,400 mile sail to South Africa. Only problem is the wind and weather are not cooperating with us and we find ourselves drifting in the Mozambique Channel with no wind. We have a long way to go and must conserve diesel fuel so we float around and get hit by a few squalls.

Scuba diving with an incredible amount of sharks at the remote atoll of Bassas Da India! On our 1,400 mile sail from Madagascar to South Africa we decide to make a little pit stop at one of the most epic diving places on the planet! We sail Delos back and forth while diving all day long from Maggie and discover and incredible underwater world with one of the healthiest shark populations we have ever seen!

Sailing south down the Mozambique channel we encounter a strong low pressure system that could potentially create the dreaded ship breaking waves that make the South African coast so infamous. We run West towards Moputo, Mozambique to try and seek shelter before coming up with another plan

Finding balance in life is something we strive for on Delos daily! After being away from family and friends for 2 years we make the decision it’s finally time to make the trip home. We saved some money cruising on the cheap in Madagascar and Delos was safe in an affordable marina in Durban! Over the period of 6 weeks we go from Delos to Dubai, Orlando, Colorado, and Sweden and back again.

After 6 weeks away from Delos we come back home to find her exactly how we left her! While waiting on a good weather window to head for Cape Town we go on an epic road trip to the country of Lesotho and visit the highest pub in Africa! And just before we leave Durban we have a chance to go scuba diving at Aliwal shoals with some beautiful big sharks!

Our FINAL SAIL of the season takes us down the Wild Coast of South Africa and back to CAPE TOWN!!! Sailing around the Cape of Good Hope can be some of the most dangerous waters in the world but the forecast looks and we decide to go for the run down the Wild Coast! We have some epic wind and good speeds and blast around right through the Agulhas current, but before rounding Cape Agulahas a low pressure system forces us into Mossel bay to wait for thing to clear. We wake up early to find clear sunny skies and make our final sail around Cape Point and into the amazing city of Cape Town! Mr. Brady turns 30 the morning we pull into Cape Town so we start off with bloody mary's for breakfast and pretty much have a rager to celebrate with friends :)

88 days of our Cape Town summer compressed into one megasode! Our friend Ian lends us his Pajero, which we immediately start using to go on missions around Cape Town. First up- we head to the Boss 400 to explore the freezing ass water around Cape Town. Shortly after Brian fixes the turbo charger on Delos's main engine. We then take a road trip to Up The Creek and soak in a real Afrikans Festival in the middle of a floaty party in a river. Returning from our party adventures we hang out with the awesome pirates from SV Convivia where our friend Tucker ends up giving all 3 of us tattoos! Finally the Girl Crew season begins with the arrival of Miss England and Miss Austria. We begin preparing Delos to venture across the Atlantic from Africa to South America. Hope you enjoy and sending much love and peace to you all