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Man, we love New York! Its' the end of our season and the boat is tucked up and happy in Charleston, so it's time to fly home to see our families. As we are flying out of JFK , we decide to visit this great city, meet its people and do the whole tourist t...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

Esper is joined by a new crew member! Kev is an accomplished skipper who has done much sailing in his life but the question is, does he get to go sailing? He joins us in Telaga as we prepare the boat for our departure to Sumatra but, being a wise sailor, k...

We're so close to leaving for Indonesia now but the weather window is closing. The forecast is pretty bleak with the usual Sumatran storms and the beginning of the SW monsoon approaching. The question is, should we head off in that direction? Peace and fa...

This is getting ridiculous! New batteries sitting at 11.79v? Over $200 to repair the outboard? Leaking toilet? But this is just boat maintenance in paradise, dear viewer. This is what owning a boat is all about, so just take a deep breath and deal with eac...