Do sailing YouTubers need to think twice before filming the remote and secluded locations they visit and alerting the rest of the world to their existence? Is ...
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A tropical cyclone developing off western Australia to the south of us, meant it was time to skedaddle. And what lay in front of us was a 30-mile passage ...
Watermakers are an essential piece of kit for remote cruising, so we take good care of our Schenker Zen 30. In this boat work episode, Jamie takes us through ...
This is it, we've reached The End. A few months and 2500 miles from Malaysia to Indonesia later, we arrived at our destination, Medana Bay It's been ...
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In the Flores Sea, we once again cranked up our code zero sail, aka 'The Kraken'! The conditions were perfect. In this video, we run through our setup and get ...
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Cruising by sailboat is exhilarating, but absorbing new cultures and meeting new people is the real adventure. To make someone smile when you don't speak each ...
After what felt like months of bashing against wind and waves in the Banda Sea, we finally turned south-west into the south-easterly trade winds. After 120 ...
Finding diesel is always a challenge. But when all you have on offer is biofuel, how safe is biodiesel in a sailboat engine? Then there's the problem of ...
All cruisers are obsessed with weather forecasts, and the main phenomena we watch in forensic detail are the "lows" you'll hear them banging on about in the ...
Every sailor will tell you that when you are preparing to cast off the lines, there is never enough time. So with mostly technical and marine systems to ...
Every cruiser has niggling boat maintenance jobs which you can live with, but when you're about to make 1,000 nautical mile passage you need to attend to. Yes, ...
Casting Off is a no-frills podcast from the cockpit of our sailboat, SY Esper. We talk about what's happening in real-time, and we answer our favourite ...
This is how we sail SY Esper, our Oyster 435 cutter-rigged ketch. The principles apply equally to most sail plans... 🥂 PATREON | FTBMates | Rum Fund - ...
We've been sailing on SY Esper since 2006, thousands of miles and lots of places. But after all these years it's never easy to say goodbye 🥂 PATREON | ...
Are you fit to sail? SKIP TO 03:47 FOR THE FULL DISCUSSION. How's your resting pulse rate? Is your stamina as good as your strength? We talk about staying fit ...
How do we argue and remain friends on a small boat? SKIP TO 03:09 FOR THE FULL DISCUSSION. What's it like living 24/7 in such a tiny home? Has the last year ...
Are you thinking of buying a water-maker? We look at a different system to our own and wonder if this is the best water maker for cruisers? Skip to 08:36 for ...
On Mantanani Island would you choose a hotel or homestay? Who wouldn't prefer to chill out in the shade, taking it nice and slow at the weekend? And maybe stay ...
It's always a worry when you splash back into the water after doing some work on a boat. And living with lightning and thunderstorms at anchor doesn't make it ...
Sailing 180 miles from Belitung to Lingga in the Java Sea was a first, made more interesting by the anti-collision tactics we had to employ for the fishing ...
Just yer average life at anchor next to a tropical island: boat work, beach walking, beer drinking... using a hookah (that's hookah, not hooker!) for boat ...