Our Most Dangerous Problem (Since We Started Sailing)
There was about a month left before the weather window closed, and time was starting to run out. We needed to get a wiggle on.
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What to do while you wait
What to do while you wait for… engine parts? the wind to change? your visas to arrive? the storm to blow over? Has anyone done a study on the amount of time cruisers spend waiting? What do you do while
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Sailing is Horrible (Sometimes)
Sometimes sailing is horrible. You can’t make any headway, there’s no wind and nowhere safe to anchor. We rocked and rolled our way along the northern coast of Lombok. It was a slow, depressing day.
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Sailing West (Along the Sunda Islands)
Get close to nature by sailing west with us along the Sunda islands of Indonesia: untouched jungle, hidden waterfalls, fruit bat heaven! And some rather nice sailing…
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Come and have a chat…
…did you know it takes a bottle of rum a week to keep followtheboat afloat?
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Travel Photography That Tells a Story
Photography from Turkey to Indonesia via Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Oman, India, The Maldives, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia…
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A Rare Glimpse Inside Our Sailboat + Meet Jamie on Zoom!
Liz rashly picked up the new camera, a DJI Pocket 3, to film herself walking from her ‘boffice’ to Jamie’s work station, unintentionally revealing the mess we are currently living in!
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Mata Jitu: Princess Diana’s Waterfall
Mata Jitau was named by the locals after Princess Diana when she went to visit 30 years earlier; it turned out to be hidden within pristine jungle…
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No time to edit YouTube videos!
That’s right, no time to edit Youtube videos… apart from this little one at the end of the year with an update and mini preview of what’s coming next! 2023 has been quite a mixed bag of highlights and lowlights
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No depth-sounder, no autopilot. Who cares? We’re sailing!
We lost our autopilot and depth sounder, but who cares, we’re sailing!
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Deadly Komodo Dragon: The Largest Lizard on Earth
We got up close to Komodo dragons on Rinca island. They can grow to 300 pounds and three and a half meters, and have been known to kill humans. But this is good news for the dragons, because interest in their man-eating credentials has made them a compelling ecotourist attraction and kept them from extinction.
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Komodo National Park | Was It Worth The Wait?
In typical followtheboat fashion, it’s taken us over a month to get from Lombok to the Komodo National Park, a distance of just 400km as the crow flies. But before we take in busy Labuan Bajo on the island of
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Is there any anchorage more breathtaking than Banta Island?
Banta Island is a spectacular cliché of deserted white sand beaches, kaleidoscope reef fish, fringing coral and turquoise sea-blue water.
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Sumbawa Island: Ignore the Warnings!
Bima is the largest town on the island of Sumbawa, a place we were warned NOT to visit by our friend, who said “Sumbawa is lawless and helpless”…
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes (in the Ring of Fire)
We are sailing in the Sunda Arc, which means volcanoes and earthquakes. Many of those volcanoes are active, and earthquakes happen on a daily basis. Mount Tambora In 1815 Mt Tambora erupted, throwing into the air 20 cubic miles of
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