8000 Miles in 36 Hours
Endorphins are released during pleasurable activities such as dancing, sailing and eating. They help relieve pain, reduce stress and improve your sense of well-being, just like dolphins!
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Log
The Ship’s Log covers journeys undertaken by sail or canal boat, and includes general posts not covered by the Travel category.
Sailing Overnight to Sulawesi (we hit a log)
During this passage, we left in thunder and lightning and sailed for 150 miles across a shipping lane in ever-changing winds. Overnight sails in south-east Asia are particularly challenging, not least because the waters are full of obstacles that you can’t see in the dark. Like logs.
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Sailing Against a Rip-Roaring Current… to Tranquility!
This remote place (the kind you seldom hear about and never see) has one of the scariest entrances we have ever sailed into.
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A Hard Slog
We hoped the next destination would make the hard slog since leaving Sabah worth all the effort. Just one more anchorage before we get there…
Sixteen hazards in two days of sailing
The joy of being allowed in the country and leaving for our first anchorage was soon tempered by a night storm, followed by a two day passage south to the port of Tarakan during which we encountered 16 different hazards.
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We Made It To Indonesia, but…
Boat maintenance rumbled on, Jamie grumbled on. The fridge failed, and B&G is really rubbish. Then 35kts of wind and breaking waves in the dark had two boats dragging anchor and shooting off into the night.
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Indonesia Won’t Let Us In (Now What?)
The situation is out of control, it’s out the window. We can’t check into Indonesia. Does that mean we head to the Philippines?
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Malaysia Kicked Us Out…
Since Malaysia wanted us out, we had to leave. But Indonesia was getting jittery and had begun to close its ports of entry…
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Loud and Scary Noises at Night
Yes, sailing in waters that are deemed extremely dangerous because of piracy was on our “things to worry about” list. But not this…
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Sailing with purpose!
We have a long route ahead to a brand new destination! And just to make life better, we are sailing, reaching some of our fastest times and Liz is catching fish!
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Failing Equipment in Pirate Waters
We pick our way through the known dangers, sailing close to our buddy boats and alert for pirate activity or any activity which seems unusual.
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Goodbye Marina! Hello Open Sea!
We’re so excited to be off on a new sailing adventure for the first time in two years.
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We’ve got 1500NM to go, but…
And, yes, you heard correctly, the countdown has begun towards our next destination, but where will that be?
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We haven’t disappeared, we promise!
We haven’t disappeared, we promise! We took a break over the holidays but are back. Here’s a message recorded at lunchtime on 6th January
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Happy New Year 2022!
Even though the world went crazy, and the unrelenting bad news kept rolling on, we managed to make some memorable and cherished memories. What are yours?
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