Listen in on this one-of-a-kind podcast where Liz and Jamie update you on their journey sailing 1,200 miles from Bali to Malaysia. Follow along as they navigate through Indonesia's stunning archipelago, share stories of their time spent living on a boat, a...
Learn about sailing and boating through stories from experienced marine enthusiasts. Explore their experiences with sailboat repair, skeg reconstruction, night photography adventures, and maintaining their boats to prepare for future voyages. Discover prac...
Discover the reality of sailing through an earthquake-prone and highly volcanic area with Follow the Boat's Liz and Jamie. Learn about their adventures, risks encountered, and safety measures they take while navigating through beautiful yet dangerous water...
This video from Follow the Boat shows how to diagnose and repair a stiff steering issue on a sailboat. The main problems are dirty, old grease in the rudder, and a mismatched bronze hole and pintle. The solution is to replace the steering cable and conduit...
Around 150 real-life cruisers answered our question, “If you were going to offer ONE piece of PRACTICAL advice to a new or would-be cruiser, what would it be?” We read and discuss their answers in this video podcast. What is YOUR advice to become a suc...
We threw fire and hammers at the rudder, but it wouldn't budge...
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"The Most Challenging Boat Repair of All Time?"
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Do we really need chart plotters now there are so many apps available? We take a look at the apps we use on SY Esper, and discuss if we really need chart plotters these days...
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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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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 discover the most dangerous problem we've had on SY Esper since we started sailing. What should we do?
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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...
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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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...
Sailors over the cent...
"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...
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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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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...
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...
"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...
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...
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