Sailing 150 miles overnight to Sulawesi (and hitting a log) | Episode 306
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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We've been blogging, vlogging and podcasting about living on our boat since 2005. If you love travel, sailing, fishing, diving and photography this might be the channel for you... Each week we post a 15-20 minute snapshot of what we did. It might cover anything from sailing, travelling, meeting people, fishing, cooking, shopping in exotic markets or hanging out on a tropical beach, to boat maintenance (there's a lot of that when you live on a boat) and tackling challenges or bureaucratic conundrums. There's also a fair bit of photography and diving. Even though the world continues to throw spanners at us, we love being perpetual travellers. And we've never regretted making the big leap into this alternative lifestyle for even a nanosecond. If we make you laugh or inspire you, then these videos haven't been a total waste of time. Pop round to the pub and share a drink with us... https://followtheboat.com/pub/ Jamie and Liz xx
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