Here in PSS Boatyard, Satun, we say good bye to our neighbours, Maggie Drum. They are seen off in true Thai style, with bangers let off to ward away the spirits!
10:55 Meet "Pong Ton Tui! #1 Carpenters!"
Our sixth summary video of progress aboard Esper, which is undergoing a major refit in PSS Satun Boatyard, Thailand.
Liz was doing the payroll the other week and as she went through the carpenters' names, Pong, ...
Come into my office. Yes, we have an office, albeit a bit noisy and breezy. It was a frustrating week for some (me) but the rest of the team has been cracking along. Liz's Study, complete with a new, curved all, is almost complete. Meanwhile the painters h...
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This is to accompany our blog post on Esper's Refit Week Three, which you can find here: http://followtheboat.com/2014/02/23/esper-refit-week-3. It was recorded in PSS Boatyard, Chebilang, Satun, Thailand, and features our team of workers on the boat this ...
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This clip is to accompany our second blog post on our refit story (Part Two), which you can find here: http://followtheboat.com/2014/02/16/esper-refit-week-2/. You may also subscribe to our mailing list for future updates. Find it here: http://eepurl.com/B...
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Can Millie get the fish out of the bucket? Continuing the adventures of Millie. Here our heroine attempts to fish from a bucket. At anchor Millie can't get ashore to cast her line, so instead she cheats by asking us to fill a bucket with fish for her to ca...
This is to accompany the blog post (http://followtheboat.com/2014/02/09/esper-refit-week-1/) on hauling our sail boat, Esper (an Oyster 435) in PSS Boat Yard, Chebilang, Satun, Thailand. It includes a clip of a local fishing boat being launched in the same...
This is to accompany our blog post on Esper's refit in PSS Boatyard, Satun, Thailand. In this clip Lek is preparing the hull for osmosis treatment, whilst carpenter brothers Ton and Tui remove the portlights from the cabin.
This is to accompany a post on www.followtheboat.com. It features Khaled of Rumshines Tours, who are based in Wadi Rum. They come extremely recommended!
A little clip of sunrise towards Pulua We, on the eleventh day of our crossing from the Maldives to Malaysia. Liz looking tired after hand steering for 1,000 miles! Part of our blog post on the same crossing over at www.followtheboat.com
Footage of approaching squalls, including a rainbow! There's a fair bit of wind, hence the subtitles, but in this clip we discuss briefly some sailing terminology and introduce you to Marge, our auto-pilot. This is to accompany our blog post on crossing th...
A clip to accompany our blog post on sailing from the Maldives to Malaysia. This was a 1500 mile crossing of two halves. Here Liz inadvertently catches a bird on the end of her lure. We rescued him and he looks a bit perplexed, but it has a happy ending. Y...
A clip of Liz helming s/y Esper half way across the Indian Ocean, part of our 1,500 mile trip from the Maldives to Malaysia. We're running downwind in WSW Force 6 (though if you look carefully our wind display shows us close-reaching, which is a lie as our...
Island Hideaway is paradise on earth. There, I've said it. What was supposed to be a quick two-day stop-over turned into a five day mini-break as Liz and I indulged ourselves in the seven-star luxury facilities at the island of Dhonakulhi, in the northern ...
Only a few months ago our Indian friend Gladwin couldn't swim. He couldn't even jump in a shallow swimming pool to begin with and yet now, thanks to myself and Brian he is doing lengths. Technique and style still need some work but this is proof that if yo...
We were visited by a news crew yesterday. Apparently, in our absence over the summer, they had come down to cover a story on Nazer, the man who looks after Millie The Cat when we are in the UK. They returned for a follow-up so sometime soon you should see ...
The Kathri Suma family of Gujarat is the only family using this technique of cloth decoration. It is unique to this one village. Castor oil plant is boiled for two days to a sticky goo. It is then mixed with different pigments to create the colours. The de...
In our last Porta-Bote video we showed how easy it is to put this folding boat together in four minutes. Some of you asked us if it was possible to do all this on the deck of our boat. In this clip Liz hows how easy it is to do exactly that. This clip is t...
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