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Our First Mini New Boat Tour

January 25, 2025

We filmed this mini new boat tour during our first brief visit to our new boat earlier this week.

January 12, 2025

We’re kicking off the year with episode one of our new season of video podcasts. First off, to address those two recurring questions…

November 23, 2024

Since he was in England earlier this month, and he missed mucking about in boats, Jamie decided to take up the suggestion to live on a canal boat.

November 8, 2024

Our last and best sail?

October 20, 2024

Surviving 20 years as cruisers has had its ups and downs. We share five of our near misses here…

August 17, 2024

The 36 hour passage from Bawean to Karimunjawa threw just one long squall at us to liven things up in the middle of the night

June 27, 2024

So why do we do it? Because we’ve been telling the story of our cruising life for 20 years and we’re not going to stop now!

January 31, 2024

…did you know it takes a bottle of rum a week to keep followtheboat afloat?

December 19, 2020

Do you know about FTB’s Rum Fund? Did you know that it takes at least one bottle of rum (each!) to produce one video? That’s a lot of rum…

July 9, 2020

Platform fees, processing fees, payout fees… they all eat away at the generous pledges from Patrons.