A week discovering Kenya’s Lamu Archipelago
Lamu Island, whose capital bears the same name, was classified as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2001. It was for a long time only accessible by boat, as was the surrounding archipelago, including the islands of Shela, Manda and Pate. We recently followed in the wake of those ancient mariners during a weeklong cruise from Watamu, Kenya, less than 90nm south of Lamu.
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Publié le
01/08/2023
Par
William Kosar
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191
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2023
Getting ready to go “Failing to plan is planning to fail”: this cannot be emphasized enough. The planning for this cruise up to Lamu began immediately after our last trip in early March 2022. This would be my 4th sail to Lamu, the second on my own boat, a modified 1996 Richard Woods Elf 26 catamaran. I had been watching the weather patterns for several months and Fritz had already started the weather routing. We were initially planning to leave on January 19, but a cyclone down near Madagascar was causing all the air to move down those sides to the massive low thus causing extraordinary wind a…
