Indonesia Won’t Let Us In (Now What?)
The situation is out of control, it’s out the window. We can’t check into Indonesia. Does that mean we head to the Philippines?
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Planet Dinawan exclusive video preview
This is an example of the kind of test footage we post on FTBMates – it hasn’t been published in our YT videos yet and only you and FTBMates get to see it!
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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 Mighty Mount Kinabalu
Now that we’re at anchor we get a much better perspective of the impressive Sabbah mountain range. Dominating the landscape, however, rising high above every other mountain, is Mount Kinabalu. It stands at over 4,000m above sea level and can
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That Dense Mangrove
One more from that mangrove, just to show you how dense it is. It meanders for a good half a mile into thick roots. Sometimes paddling becomes impossible so you end up bouncing off trees hanging over your head. I
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Security During Lockdown
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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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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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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Are YouTube sailing channels destroying the world?
Are we the problem? Should we keep the remote places we find a secret to protect them? Some say we should, some say we shouldn’t…Get ready, Jamie is in rant mode and he lets it all out in this week’s Q&A!
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LAST VISIT TO WEST COAST MALAYSIA!
Ahead of us lay storms, lightning, eating sea cockroaches, another flesh-eating wound, being turfed out of Penang, hitting the bottom, breaking the dodger…
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Loving Langkawi: Part 2
Zionel the mechanic returns and fits our reconditioned gear box and new damping plate. After a few hours of boat maintenance we take the rest of the afternoon off and go for a drive and take in the rest of the sights of Langkawi.
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Loving Langkawi: Part 1
While we waited for spares to be shipped from various parts of the globe, Jamie and I took time away from boat maintenance to enjoy Malaysia’s most popular tourist destination…
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Top 10 things to do in Georgetown, Penang
Many cruisers visit Penang in order to go through the bureaucracy of acquiring a Thai visa. But Georgetown, with its UNESCO-listed heritage, art scene and world renowned street food is so much more than a visa stop-over. Here’s our guide to what to do and see in the island’s capital, and some suggestions of where to stay and eat.
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Chemicals and culture: 48 hours in Georgetown, Penang
The island of Penang lies south of Langkawi on the north-west coast of mainland Malaysia. Before Kuala Lumpur developed into the international capital it is today, Penang was the economic and cultural hub of Malaysia. But it wasn’t always so.
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