Cruising – Kenya to Tanzania
As a Canadian registered sailboat, as long as Cassandraville has been in Kenya, every November, we must make what I call our annual pilgrimage to Tanzania along with a flotilla of other foreign registered yachts to avoid having to pay VAT. This year was no different than previous years except that we had hoped to sail in the annual Dar Tanga Yacht Race, the oldest, longest and largest yacht race in East Africa (almost 60 years old now!)
Every year for the past seven, I start planning my next voyage south to Tanzania as soon as the new year rolls around. As part of the planning, I reach out to friends and sailors both far and wide to join in the adventure, and 2023 was no different. I had two friends; one old, Chico, (we taught college together in Kuwait back in 2007) and one new, Avaneil (well sort of, we first met at a Hobie Cat regatta that I had organised back on Burlington Beach in Ontario Canada almost 25 years ago). Avaneil is one of Canada’s
