Can you help us?
Can you help us? We’re interested to hear from any mate who reads a language other than English to see how well the translation works…
Super-High Res Photo For You!
A feature we offer our FTBMates and Patreons is full-resolution photo downloads. All supporters get access to our fave photos to be used however they wish for private use. Some of these make great desktop wallpapers, others have printed them
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Planet Dinawan exclusive video preview
This is an example of the kind of test footage we post on FTBMates – it hasn’t been published in our YT videos yet and only you and FTBMates get to see it!
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Our Monthly Prize Draw Is Back
Our FTBMates Monthly Prize Draw is back! For the last few months our print company has been unable to fulfill all print orders, for obvious reasons. They’re still not sending out mugs but they’re back in the business of fulfilling
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Dinawan West
You’ll be seeing Dinawan in one of our videos very soon, but we thought you might like a little sneaky peek of The Caribbean of the East. We’ve uploaded a high-res version of this for all our FTBMates to download.
Discount this week for our email subscribers!
We have a discount coupon just for our email subscribers! It’s running for one week only and can be used on any item in our shop. Why are we doing this? Because it’s summer! Because you need one of our
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The Mighty Mount Kinabalu
Now that we’re at anchor we get a much better perspective of the impressive Sabbah mountain range. Dominating the landscape, however, rising high above every other mountain, is Mount Kinabalu. It stands at over 4,000m above sea level and can
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That Dense Mangrove on Gaya Island, Sabah
One more from that mangrove, just to show you how dense it is. It meanders for a good half a mile into thick roots. Sometimes paddling becomes impossible so you end up bouncing off trees hanging over your head. I
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I Discovered A Mangrove Paddle
If you’ve got this far in the blog it’s no secret that we finally left the marina after many months of lockdown. Our second anchorage had us tucked up in a tiny bay, protected from some nasty SW squalls. When
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The Amazing Adventures of Millie The Ocean Cat
As we were adjusting to life without Millie, the Cruising Cartoonist, Sarah Steenland, sent us this super cartoon. It really cheered us up! In her Facebook post she said: The cruising community has lost another legend this month 🥺 –
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Early Morning Vista – Phang Nga, Thailand
We frequently post up high-res photographs for our FTBMates to download as a desktop, screen-saver or to print out. This is another photo we re-edited, which was taken early one morning in the northern part of Phang Nga, south Thailand.
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Would you like to buy my son?
Our 200th episode comes out today! It’s a retrospective of our time aboard Esper but includes some of our travel experiences off the boat too. It makes for some fun viewing so we hope you enjoy it. In this video
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Phang Nga Bay, Krabi, Thailand
While learning to use photoshop in the lockdown, Liz came across this shot Jamie took back in Krabi, Thailand.
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Security During Lockdown – Vintage Lens
This is Jamie’s second one-hour photography project during lockdown in which he gave himself 60 minutes to play with an old legacy lens on a Sony A7iii. This time the lens was a Canon FD 85 f/1.4.
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Marina Life During Lockdown
We are fortunate that security has been maintained. Whilst exercising around the marina by foot or by bike, sometimes we’re stopped and asked who we are. This can get a little tedious but I guess the security have a job to do and it’s good to know they take their job seriously.
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