We’ve reached THE END!
This is it, we’ve reached The End. A few months and 2500 miles from Malaysia to Indonesia later, we arrived at our destination, Medana Bay Marina.
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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.
Perfect Trade Wind Sailing
This was just about the most perfect trade wind sailing we have ever had: strong, constant wind and a current on our side in the Flores Sea. Bliss!
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Time to QUIT?
Was it time to quit? The waves built to over 3m and wind knot speeds reached into the 40’s. We turned off the engine and sailed west…
We Were Spinning 360°
It was every hackneyed cliché in the book. And it was going to be exactly what we had hoped for in the long journey south across the remotest parts of Sulawesi. But as we have learned over the years, when you’re a sailor, it never quite works out the way you expect…
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Fighting currents when diving and sailing!
The currents we jumped into on our first dive were a swirling whirlpool; we hoped they wouldn’t be so violent as we sailed south…
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Living And Travelling On A Boat You Must Adapt Or Die!
Apart from the weather, continuing knocks and vibrations from our engine were shaping the route and causing delays, so we had to embrace the enforced changes and go with the flow.
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Things are changing – please read!
We have some exciting developments happening at FTB HQ and we wanted you to be the first to know about them. We want to stay in touch with you and we want to offer you more than just weekly video updates, and we believe our new project is the way forwards, both for us and for you.
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Water spouts in paradise | Sailing to the Togean Archipelago
The squall hit and the water spout appeared dead ahead. Now down to two and a half knots, worried and panicking, we wondered what next…
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Passage Planning – How do we decide where to go? (But first, the engine’s full of water!)
We were in Indonesia simply because it had been the first country to open its borders to sailboats on this side of the planet. We now had three choices…
We killed our engine dead
What would you do if you were on a sailboat in a deep lagoon dotted with reefs and your engine stopped dead?
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Nazar’s widow is struggling, can you help?
Nazar was Millie’s best friend ever, and our dear friend in India. He died far too young and his widow, Zakeena, is now struggling.
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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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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…