The Tanga Yacht Race is a well-known event among sailors in Dar, and I was fortunate to have the opportunity to participate. I was on a boat skippered by a 77-year-old veteran of many Tanga races, so I felt safe. The boat was a clean and tidy catamaran, with many automated systems that made sailing… Read More »
I had heard of Lazy Lagoon so when there was the chance to go there and spend the night bobbing up and down moored by Foxes Hotel, I jumped at it. We were in the minority in that we decided to cook our own food and stay 100% of the time on the boat. We… Read More »
The Latham fishing competition is the biggest in the fishing section calendar at the Dar Yacht Club. The boats go our for 36 hours in the area to the south called Latham or into the channel between Dar and Zanzibar. Before the boats set sail there was a raffle – kind of an auction –… Read More »
I have never sailed on a laser or a small catamaran so, instead I was prepared to join Mark on his yacht to be part of the support crew. The race started at 4pm Friday afternoon and went through to 4pm on Saturday. Claire was the manager of the Green Dragons race team and she… Read More »
When I saw the opportunity to get to Zanzibar on CQ with Paul and his crew and a handful of others, I leapt at the chance. I hadn’t been out of Dar in months and I was going stir crazy. For $120 it was a cheap option and to be even on the periphery of… Read More »
Walking into Dar Yacht Club (or DYC as they like to call it) you can feel the history before you see the wooden board on the quarter deck (the bar) listing all the Commanders of the club since its founding in 1933. I cannot afford full membership as it costs thousands of dollars a year… Read More »
I have been trying to find someone with a boat ever since I got here and at last I did it. Mike generously said I could go aboard his catamaran and it turned out that we were going to have a race. There was only one other boat in the race – Ragtime – and… Read More »