Sailing into the jungle
The Kinabatangan River, at 342 miles, is the second longest river in Malaysia. Bordered by mangroves, rain forest, limestone caves and swamps, it’s like nowhere we have sailed before.
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Death Marches – Sandakan’s beauty and atrocity
The orangutans and sub bears were uplifting, but the experience which overwhelmed us (and still brings us to tears) was learning about the WWII Borneo Death Marches at The Sandakan Memorial Park.
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Turtle Islands and nightmare squalls
When a second squall followed behind the first, all six rally boats turned 180 degrees and were pushed towards the reef. Boats began dragging in the soft sand and one of our number motored deeper to escape the danger.
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Sitting ducks in the pirate zone
Imagine how you would feel if you had to make an emergency stop in high risk seas and became sitting ducks on your sailboat. That’s what happened to us and it was a tense moment for all the boats.
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Do we need a faster boat?
Esper takes the first security night watch and Liz explains a little bit about what we’re expected to look out for.
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The Sabah Rally’s over and we’re back in business!
For most of the last two months we have been offline, only able to grab internet here and there via our mobile phones. But now we’re back in Internetland, looking forward to sharing all our adventures.
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Med mooring with the birds and bees…
So far, Malaysia has been kind to us in allowing sailboats and crew to stay here without visas. The latest RMCO (Recovery Movement Control Order) finishes 31st December and we are hoping the government will extend the same courtesy until it finishes.
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Sabah Rally Day 1
We get lucky with the wind, Liz gets lucky with the fishing and Jamie tries to get lucky at a sexy beach party.
The only sailing rally in the world begins!
Will we see pygmy elephants? Orangutans? Nesting turtles? Hammerhead sharks? And are the pirates watching us…
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What does it cost to sail around the world?
What does it cost to sail around the world? Tips to help plan your cruising budget.
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Is this SE Asia’s answer to the Caribbean?
Liz rediscovers her fishing mojo when she lands a skipjack tuna for dinner, while Jamie does his best Millie impression by jumping about with excitement.
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Why are we sailing through pirate waters (again)?
The problem is that the waters of eastern Sabah are some of the most notorious in the world for kidnappings and piracy. So the only chance we’ll ever get to see this part of the world is to…
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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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