Drum roll please! We have a winner of caption competition #2… And we launch caption competition #4 on YouTube.
CAPTION COMPETITION #4
Funniest, weirdest, maddest comments needed for that hand-written postcard from Millie (and Liz and Jamie)!
REPLACING FIVE SEACOCKS & HAULING OUT AGAIN…
So before we went back in the water Jamie checked the seacocks, right? Yeah, but one decided to fail while we were in the water. On the bright side, better it fail here than out at sea…
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BOAT IN A HURRICANE? – YOUR COMMENTS ANSWERED!
Yesterday we went out on a Deben Lugger sailboat into the mangrove river outside Krabi Boat Lagoon. It was a beautiful day for messing about in boats, and a great opportunity to talk through how to prepare your sailboat for storm sailing.
FOLLOWTHEBOAT IS SECURE (AND IT LOADS FASTER)
With big increases in traffic and subscriptions we’re dedicating more time into making your visit to followtheboat hassle-free and fast. Come and have a look!
MILLIE DREAMS OF SAILING AWAY
Some days we go backwards and lose our mojo, but then it will all go to plan and we feel great again. Millie is a stoic, sleeping through the chaos and enjoying her view from deck, whether she’s floating next to the pontoon or propped up on the hard.
PREPARING A BOAT FOR HURRICANE SAILING
While the carpenters and stainless team work on the last details of our hard dodger, we’re busy fitting bolts, hoses and more bilge pumps inside our sailboat in an effort to minimise the damage that will happen if we broach in a typhoon during our passage across the Pacific to Alaska and Canada.
WHEN SHOULD YOU ABANDON SHIP? THIS COUPLE DID JUST THAT
A can of beans can kill you. It has the force of a sledge hammer when the boat is bucking or knocked down. Someone we know was killed by one in the Atlantic.
MILLIE TIME
While we anxiously go through our check list of work here in the marina, Millie’s days are taken up with finding the coolest and most comfortable place on the boat.
CAPTION COMPETITION #1 WINNER ANNOUNCED!
Yes, what started off as a bit of fun has rolled into a regular feature. We worked through more than 200 entries across Patreon, Facebook and Instagram to find the first winner!
CAPTION COMPETITION #3
Caption this! We’ll send a hand-written postcard to anywhere in the world for our favourite answer!
MISS UNIVERSE COMES TO THE MARINA!
While Liz was in the UK, Jamie received a call from our friend Ricardo asking him if he would like a job helping out on a catamaran for the afternoon. Initially skeptical, Jamie’s interest piqued when he heard the phrase “Miss Thailand”.
HOW TO ANCHOR: SIX STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL ANCHORING
These are our six steps to effective and efficient anchoring, learned through practical experience over the 12 years we have been anchoring in all kinds of conditions from Turkey to Thailand. This guide is aimed at beginners and those wishing to gain confidence in anchoring.
GALE IN THE BOAT YARD!
Moving a sailboat in a gale, is it dangerous? Millie and Jamie didn’t feel safe as SY Esper swung around in her cradle, the hull shuddering with each gust of wind. Sometimes life on the hard is hard!
THE BLOG IS GETTING BIGGER!
Our subscribers have been growing, so thank you to every one of you for joining us here and being part of the followtheboat family. It’s lovely to have you aboard!
CAPTION COMPETITION #2
Caption this! We’ll send a hand-written postcard to anywhere in the world for our favourite answer!
RIGGING AND COBRAS, ALL IN A DAY’S WORK!
It is the season for cobras: big ones, little ones and all scary. We’ve seen a few around the marina, and Jai found one in his office. Well, it’s a rigger’s work space, so just imagine those lovely lines coiled up like snakes in there…
OPERATION “POSTCARDS TO SUPPORTERS” UNDERWAY!
Yes, we’ve hand-written, hand-addressed and hand-stamped what felt like thousands of postcards! These exclusive postcards, designed by Liz, are going all over the world to the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, NZ and even locally to Thailand.
MILLIE’S HAD ENOUGH OF LIFE ON THE HARD!
Stuck in the condo for a few days, Millie made a break for it and found herself a new boat!
SHOULD WE RE-RIG THE BOAT?
$10,000 to re-rig our boat?! The rigging’s ten years old, so our insurers insist we change it, but what do the professional riggers think?
