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  • Maldives,  Sailing

    Maldives – Here we come!

    1st April 2009 / No Comments

    My friends and crew, Laith and Bernard, and I seem to have settled into our routine quite easily.  It’s only really been disturbed by Laith’s bout of seasickness a couple…

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    Bryan
  • Maldives,  Sailing

    Our Longest Passage

    26th March 2009 / 2 Comments

    The first leg of the journey was a 200 NM overnight passage from Aroha’s home port of Dubai Offshore Sailing Club (DOSC) to Fujairah, on UAE’s Gulf of Oman coast. …

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    Bryan
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About us

We are Bryan & Helen.

A Kiwi and a Brit who met in Dubai. We gave up corporate life and set sail to explore South East Asia in 2019.

The plan was to live aboard our 37ft Bavaria Sailing Yacht called Aroha (ah-roh-huh), meaning “love, compassion and empathy” in Māori.

Life hasn’t all been plain sailing – with the pandemic resulting in us leaving the sea for New Zealand and van life during 2021. After a 2 year break we have now sailed to Thailand.

We share our adventures of sailing, travelling and trying to live as sustainably as possible.

 

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