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VHF Etiquette: NEVER, ever say ‘over and out’. Unless you’re an actor in a bad action movie! It’s one of the many mistakes cruisers make when operating a VHF radio on a sailboat. This is our guide to the correct VHF etiquette.
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Crossing borders on a sailboat is the same as travelling anywhere abroad. Except that with a boat, you need to times the bureaucracy by 10 in some countries… We've done it in seven minutes and three days. We know people who have been arrested on arrival,...
We see these fishing platforms everywhere in this part of the world, but didn't know much about them until Jamie began this photo documentary. They drag their concrete anchors with ease, so we had learned to be wary of them in anchorages.
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We sail to the extraordinary Satonda volcano, complete with salt water lake said to have appeared after a monstrous tidal wave flooded it. But before that, we take one more look around the remote fishing village of Ijok where we get a surprising and unique...
With Jamie in the UK and Liz in Indonesia (and with 8000 miles between us) we discover the grass is always greener on the other side. And how important food is to both of us...
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The Sunda Arc is home to some of the world's most dangerous and explosive volcanoes, many of which are still very much active.
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We have been cruising around the world full time since 2006. But how long can we keep going? What would make us stop and give it all up? We ask why cruisers stop sailing and wonder if it's time for a new adventure...
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Bima is the largest town on the island of Sumbawa, a place we were warned NOT to visit by a sailing friend of ours. He said “Sumbawa is lawless and helpless”. The Indonesia Cruising Guide isn't much more positive, warning, “Bima is the largest city i...
Do you want to be a cruiser? Are you planning to sail around the world? Stop thinking about it and JUST FLIPPING DO IT! 💪
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Pulau Banta is a spectacular cliché of deserted white sand beaches, kaleidoscope fish, fringing coral and turquoise sea-blue water. To be completely honest, its majesty stunned us into silence.
Along the vast northern beach, there's just one tiny patch of...
How will understanding the 'rules' of photography help improve your videos? Does photography even have a place in video? What is the "rule of thirds" and when is the "golden hour"? Can filming at midday ever work? Are you comfortable filming people in the ...
In typical followtheboat fashion, it's taken us over a month to sail from Lombok to the Komodo National Park, a distance of just 400km as the crow flies!
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After 17 years cruising and travelling the world, where to next? It's been one, long, surprising adventure which often took us to places we weren't expecting. Here's to the next 17 years!
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An adult Komodo dragon can grow to 300 pounds and three and a half meters. They’re scary, 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 at...
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When we left the Maldives at the end of May 2013, we had no idea that sailing across the Indian Ocean would be the hardest thing we have ever done. It nearly broke us, and our sailboat. If you've ever wondered what it's like to cross an ocean on a sailboat...
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As seasoned sailors, we don't let a failing depth sounder and autopilot get us down, no! We're used to minor irritations like these and thoroughly enjoyed some of the best and fastest sailing we've had in a while!
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Princess Diana's waterfall on Moyo island: no roads, no shops, no toilets, no signs, no stairs, no WiFi: just you and nature.
We didn’t know anything about Mata Jitu Waterfall as we sailed towards it. Named by the locals after Princess Diana when she we...
"I’d be interested to learn from you how you plan your cruising in SE Asia. To me it sounds like a giant puzzle..." Well, simonvand on Discord, we thought this would be an easy question to answer until we examined all the information we have amassed over...
Liz rashly picked up our 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! But it was all in a good cause, to interview Jamie about his forthcoming...
Jamie's talk at the @TheRoyalPhotographicSociety takes a look at our travels from Turkey to Indonesia via Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Oman, India, The Maldives, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. It is also a journey through his development as a photograp...
Have you ever seen thousands of HUGE vegetarian bats streaming across the sky? Would you like to discover hidden waterfalls in remote rainforests? Then come sailing west with us along the spectacular Sunda Islands to places you can only get to by boat.
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"Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I could jump out of bed, stroll down the street, go to the park and walk on some grass.
There is no pleasure in it at all. It's like a bad trip. Once you've started a bad trip that's it, you're on a downward spiral. There...
There will always be animals on boats, whether you want them there or not. To live on a boat means living with nature: on land in the sea and in the air. Some are friendlier than others and will make your life better. Some won’t...
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Has anyone done a study on the amount of time cruisers spend waiting for stuff? Parts from a long, long way away, the wind to change, the storms to stop, the visa to arrive...
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You're anchored off a remote island in a faraway country and you've had a system failure, what do you do? How do you source an engine part? Maybe you've run out of fuel for the boat or the dinghy. Has the impeller crumbled, the windlass broken, or the sail...
We discover the most dangerous problem we've had on SY Esper since we started sailing. What should we do?
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There are at least seven reasons why your cruising dreams will fail. There, we’ve said it. In this video podcast we elaborate on the reasons, explaining in more detail why it is so important to think about the dangers and pitfalls of cruising. Do you hav...
We spent most of Week 3 whacking the fitting with brute force while trying to avoid damage to the bronze heel. By Week 4 we had achieved absolutely nothing. 😵
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