Hello from our new super yacht!
Not a bad little pad, eh? Do you have any questions you would like us to answer? We’re all ears and we have time on our hands…
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Chill Out Music Mix 2020 🕊️ Epic 4k Drone Footage
To help us all chill in these difficult times, Jamie has created this ambient journey into music and gorgeous locations to watch, listen to or do both.
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How to avoid fishing nets on a sailboat
There are many methods of fishing in the South China Sea, from a single line to vast nets carried between two boats. Sometimes nets are just left to drift with a small float on either end. Sailing can become a real assault course in many stretches of water here.
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A song of hope from the staff of Guy’s & St Thomas’ hospitals
We’re all separated at the moment, so this hopeful song from the doctors, nurses and health workers of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals is a ray of sunshine in the gloom.
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Phang Nga Bay, Krabi, Thailand
While learning to use photoshop in the lockdown, Liz came across this shot Jamie took back in Krabi, Thailand.
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Have you ever been taken ill abroad? What did you do?
If it’s not your own country, finding a hospital or a doctor, trusting that person’s judgement and going into the operating theatre are hurdles that as a cruiser you have to be prepared to jump.
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Security During Lockdown – Vintage Lens
This is Jamie’s second one-hour photography project during lockdown in which he gave himself 60 minutes to play with an old legacy lens on a Sony A7iii. This time the lens was a Canon FD 85 f/1.4.
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The cat sat on the plait mat
Our Millie’s first vet visit, a bike tour to the ‘Sea Horse’, a few more boat jobs and a full demonstration of how to make an ocean plait mat – it’s a real slice of life in a marina…
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Have you got a bicycle on your sailboat?
Sailboats and bicycles go together. If you haven’t got a folding bike, we say get one! “Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride” – Eddy Merckx
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Marina Life During Lockdown
We are fortunate that security has been maintained. Whilst exercising around the marina by foot or by bike, sometimes we’re stopped and asked who we are. This can get a little tedious but I guess the security have a job to do and it’s good to know they take their job seriously.
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When we work as a team we can cross oceans and stop viruses
If you flout the MRO (Movement Restriction Order) in Malaysia you could end up in jail for six months or receive a $250 fine.
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Gunung Mulu National Park
What’s the opposite of sailing? Jungle walking on a mountain, of course! And Gunung Mulu National Park is just the place to do it. We spent three days walking through the tropical rainforest of Sarawak in central Borneo at this
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Nowhere to run
When the meeting finished we realised that all restaurants, bars and shops (except food stores and pharmacies) would be closed the next day. Naturally, we rushed off to buy these foldable chairs to make our own pontoon pub. Not bad, are they?
Look what Millie brought us!
Gillian took a needle biopsy and half an hour later we learned that Millie’s lymph cells were misshapen. This almost certainly meant lymphoma, in other words cancer. We were devastated, but Gillian still had hope, “It can be treated,” she said.
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24 hours before lockdown
We read that Brunei had finally succumbed to Covid-19 and there was talk of a border shutdown. If we checked out of Malaysia but weren’t allowed into Brunei we would be stranded…
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