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WHY WE LOVE LIVING ON A BOAT: PEOPLE & FOOD Ep72
Sailing isn't just about the high seas. The ability to move your home around offers additional benefits, like being able to take your kitchen with you and try all the wonderful food these countries have to offer. SE Asia has some of the best food in the wo...
GIVING T-SHIRTS TO FISHERMEN Ep 71
Our supporters through Patreon have agreed to donate their exclusive followtheboat t-shirts to local people as a gesture of good-will. In this episode we get the sails out and head to a little island where we meet some fishermen who agree to give us some f...
COMPLETE BOAT REFIT REVISITED! Ep 70
Not content with spending 13 months in a boat yard doing a complete refit on our Oyster 435, we thought we'd spend some time with another couple doing exactly the same thing on exactly the same boat! Meet Ben and Belle of SY Samira, who are based in Lumut/...
AFTER PANGKOR’S BEACHES LIZ RETURNS HOME Ep 69
On July 2nd 2017 Liz's darling mum, Dorothy, passed away after a long battle with Parkinson's. Fortunately Liz made it to the UK in time to be by her side. We wanted this to be a positive episode for it to reflect the joy that Dorothy brought to Liz's lif...
FROM TROPICAL PARADISE TO URBAN JUNGLE Ep 67
The transition between the tropical island paradise in our last episode to the urban sprawling energy of Penang is a stark one. One minute we're hanging on an island with no one around, next we're surrounded by the multicultural centre of Asia. In this epi...
HOW TO LIVE LIKE ROBINSON CRUSOE Ep 66
We have found an idyllic, palm-fringed island where you can live like Robinson Crusoe. No, we are not making it up. Between Langkawi and Penang is an island where you can spend your time tending to plants, taking showers from the well and frolic on the go...
AVOIDING PIRATES IN THE MALACCA STRAITS: OUR PASSAGE PLAN Ep 65
We've done it! We've finally left Langkawi and we begin our new adventure! We say goodbye to our friends, the sunsets, the boat maintenance (hopefully) and start heading south. We get some sailing in on a remarkably calm June day and find a sweet little an...
STORM DESTROYS OUR ANCHOR BOW ROLLER! Ep 64
We do a visa run to Koh Lipe and on the way carry out a 'secret package drop' mid-ocean. The idea was to spend a few days chilling but we got hit by an almighty squall that did some damage to our bow roller. Well, this is followtheboat, what do you expect?...
WE TEST OUR NEW SAILS! Ep 63
This action-packed episode sees us testing our new sails, albeit briefly, as well as sending the drone up to discover a new hong in among the geopark rainforest of Langkawi. So where does that leave us with our sailing plans? We have made the decision on w...
FAST SAILING – HOW CLOSE TO THE WIND CAN WE GET? Ep 53
We make a pre-dawn start on a 45 mile sail south from Chalong Bay. As we head clear of Phuket, the Indian Ocean swell is met by strong easterlies, giving us a fast and wet sail to Koh Rok Nok, yet another of our favourite islands in Thailand. Those easter...
WE FOUND THE BEST RUM IN THAILAND! BOAT PREP BEGINS… Ep 52
"You're not a sailor unless you know your rum", according to an old nautical legend made up just now for this introduction. We go hunting for a mythical white rum before we start to think about preparations for a long trip towards Indonesia. There's ripp...