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We meet many people but the one group of people who are overwhelmingly positive is Americans. We never like to generalise but our experience of Americans on the whole has been nothing but good and this clip is further proof of their generosity and kindness...
Next time you turn on the tap for a glass of water or you have a shower, remember how easy it was to perform that simple, everyday act. In our latest episode we explain why it can take us over two hours to do the same… (con't below...)
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Liz and Jamie manage to slip in a visit to the Southampton Boatshow on a sunny Saturday. We bump in to old friends and new and chat to some of the people behind the 600+ exhibitors. These include Dave and Jenny Knowles of Mr D's Thermal Cooker and our own ...
This is the last in our first series of sailors questions. Boo! Good news is we finish on a high with Liz - hoorah! We actually recorded her interview months ago in Thailand but the recording quality was terrible so we redid it today! This meant she forgot...
OUR NEW TRAILER... We are Jamie and Liz and we are telling our story with video. The adventure began in 2005 when we swapped the rat-race for an alternative lifestyle...living on a boat. So far we have sailed over 25,000 miles across seas from Turkey to Th...
When we last left you we were sitting out a storm at Ko Rok. Now that it has subsided it is time to push on up towards Phuket. We make it to the southern entrance of Phiphi and are horrified to find this once peaceful anchorage packed with dive boats, long...
We don't have an update for you this week but we DO have some exciting news regarding the Splash Drone, the world's first amphibious quadcopter! Oh, and a bit on kites and kite aerial photography too. If you are interested in either of these then subscribe...
This is a new one for us, a sailing interview with a non-sailor! In actual fact Jia, manager of PSS Shipyard, does own his own (motor) boat but he rarely gets the chance to go out in it. He's in the yard seven days a week most weeks so it was nice for him ...
Life was good. But, as potential illegal immigrants, we needed to get out of Dodge before the law caught up with us...
We had a few ideas about the route, and would let the wind dictate our final direction. As we upped anchor, another spectacular sunrise ...
A little teaser from our next video blog published this coming Sunday (unless you're a Patreon supporter, in which case you get to see it a day early). This was recorded in between Ko Rok Nok and Ko Rok Noi, which themselves sit between Phuket in Thailand ...
This is a little teaser from our next video blog diary, recorded after arriving in Ko Rok, which is in between Phuket in Thailand and Langkawi in Malaysia. Because it's the end of the season there are no other tourists in this idyllic location, so we quick...
We catch up with Lorraine and Marco Hoff of s/y Pension Games on a bright, blustery afternoon in Brighton Marina, UK. They live aboard their Oyster 406 and we chat to them about Marco's stature, Bora Bora, not being able to see live music, the eighties...a...
Our American friends may not know of the English superhero, Cooperman, but here he is at Rye Maritime Festival demonstrating why he's a little different from Superman. Some amateur flyboarding.
Having decided roughly in which direction to head in order to get to Phuket, we weigh anchor from Ko Lipe on a hot morning. Since the boat is pointing into the wind whilst tied to the mooring we get the mizzen and the mainsail out. Look out for the editing...
We're in the UK right now, back at Liz's mum's home of Rye in East Sussex. This ancient port town in steeped in nautical history and boats come right in to the town centre to moor up. We thought we'd do a little bit of recording down by the slipway, so wit...
Diana hails from Australia, which gives us a clue as to the curious name of her boat. We met Diana when we returned to PSS Boatyard. Her and her husband Rob were doing some extensive work on The Doctor and we only managed to catch up with them the day befo...
This is a small sample of what an Olympus OM Zuiko legacy lens can look like on a micro four thirds (m43) camera, specifically the OM-D EM5 Mk 1 with a standard prime (not macro). All shots are handheld and manually focused via the EVF (no focus peaking). ...
Trash Hero is an exciting, progressive and positive movement that has won the support of locals, tourists, business and government. We're going to find out a bit more about Trash Hero, but not before the Malaysian Coast Guard intercepts Esper's departure....
" ...all the stuff people are interested: the car you drive; the money in the bank; the cell phone you have. I've traded experiences for things. I don't do a lot of things..." Next up in our series of interviews with sailors, commissioned specially for our...
Zionel the mechanic returns and fits our reconditioned gear box and new damping plate. Whilst he is doing this we isolate the power and the solar panels to the batteries so that when he leaves Liz can tend to her job of checking the batteries. After a few ...
This is the second in our new series of interviews with sailors we meet on our travels. Except, of course, this one is about Jamie, he of followtheboat and s/y Esper. Camera mounted on a tripod and Liz firing the questions, Jamie talks about his grandfathe...
Gunung Raya... We take you on a trip of the beautiful holiday island of Langkawi and show you why it is so popular with sailboat owners and holiday makers. We go for a drive through the rainforests and check out the highest point on Langkawi. Most tourist...
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