Sailing 150 miles overnight to Sulawesi (and hitting a log) | Episode 306
June 12, 2022 by followtheboat | Language: EN Play Time: 00:20:06 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Overnight sails in southeast Asia are particularly challenging, not least because the waters are full of obstacles that you can’t see in the dark. Like logs.
During this passage, we left in thunder and lightning and sailed for 150 miles across a shipping lane in ever-changing winds. We aimed to reach Tolitoli (our destination) in the morning because we prefer not to arrive in the dark at new anchorages. So it was an early start to give ourselves plenty of time for any delays if the going got difficult on our way to Sulawesi.
This time we took the narrow channel of Maratua Atoll on a falling tide and had two knots of current pushing us through…
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00:00 Sailing in a thunderstorm
00:48 Racing out of the channel at Maratua
01:58 Sailing to Tolitoli, Sulawesi, Southeast Asia
12:36 Sailing through the night
14:10 WE HIT A LOG!
15:00 Completing transit across the Macassar Strait
17:49 Dolphins!
19:16 Arriving Tolitoli, Sulawesi
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