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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Finding safe anchorage in the spectacular Gulf of Tomini
We leave the Togean archipelago, simply one of the most spectacular places we have visited since we went full-time into this cruising life 16 years ago.
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Diving and provisioning in the Togean Archipelago
Did you know it’s the law that you must go naked on your 100th dive? Neither did we until Jamie was told this by Iril, our young and fun local dive master. What do you reckon, did Jamie do it?!
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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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Sailing Dangers Of Indonesia – Fish Aggregating Devices
Crossing at night is not normally a concern. But the Gulf of Tomini is crowded with rumpons (fish aggregating devices, aka FADs). They lie in wait to snare you in their lines. And more dangerously, their solid floating platforms can put a hole in your boat.
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Jamie’s quest for cash
…it rapidly starts to resemble a classical quest, complete with highs, lows, wonderful characters, self-realisation, philosophy and strange, far from home.
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They’ve never seen a sailboat
…when you consider they had never seen a sailboat before, it was amazing and heart-warming how they took us into their homes…
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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…
The generator is failing two days before departure
Our trusty Honda EU20i 2.0kW has been slowing down and the rapidly declining generator is starting to become a real problem.
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Muck Diving the Lembeh Strait
The shallow sliver of water caught between Sulawesi and the small island of Lembeh is the Lembeh Strait, muck diving centre of the world, and a mecca for underwater macro photographers.
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Diving and going to hospital in Bitung
Jamie talks about the side of sailing that we don’t always show in our episodes. As many sailors will tell you, it ain’t all cocktails and white sand beaches, sometimes life gets in the way. After 1232 nautical miles of
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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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Anchoring with the charts, depth and weather against you
We love Sulawesi, but it’s not easy finding somewhere safe to anchor when the water depth rises from 1.5km to 7m in seconds.
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