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S/V Oroboro
Francesco and Yuka's journey around the world on a Leopard 40 catamaran, departing Cape Town in 2018 and still sailing.
Read the Journey →From Cape Town to Greece
A 7-year circumnavigation tracing the South Atlantic, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Mediterranean.
Latest from the Journey
Follow Oroboro's voyage through our detailed sailing log.
I built my own boat dashboard — and it looks better than the €250 Victron screen
After years staring at a 1995-style Victron Remote Console, I built my own on a Raspberry Pi. Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no frameworks, no cloud, no subscription.
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I Built a Boat Manager App
After eight years of sailing Oroboro across three oceans, I've fixed a lot of things. I couldn't find a boat management app that worked for real bluewater cruisers — so I built one.
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The Azores — The Happiest Landfall
Some landfalls you forget by the next passage. Horta is not one of them. Arriving in Horta, Faial — the landfall every Atlantic sailor dreams about. We arrived in the middle of…
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2nd Atlantic Crossing
Twenty days. 3,054 miles. One giant mahi-mahi, two dead bilge pumps, one lost propeller, and the best crew we could ask for. Here is the log, day by day, as we wrote it. On Monday…
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Sailing in the Bahamas!
After spending more than a year in the Lesser Antilles, including an unprecedented lockdown for Covid-19 and the busiest hurricanes seasons on record, the Bahamas were a very…
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Dominican Republic
We spent very little time in the Dominican Republic, unfortunately. We only sailed to Samana Bay and Luperòn on the north coast. Samana Bay is a Humpback Whales Sanctuary. It's…
Read more →Meet S/V Oroboro
Oroboro — named for the ancient ouroboros symbol of eternal renewal — is a Leopard 40 catamaran built in 2018. She carries Francesco and Yuka on a journey without a fixed end date, stopping wherever curiosity leads.
