We are sailing back to Papua and we could not be happier! Triton Bay is a place we've heard a lot about but never visited but too get there we first had to ...
Sailing Learning By Doing
How can an offshore overnight sailing passage be boring? Maybe we've just been doing too many of them lately but this one seemed to have no highlights. Just a ...
Banda Neira and its surrounding islands are real jewels in the middle of the ocean. Trading for spices has taken place here for over 1000 years, mostly for the ...
Photographing Banda, Indonesia. I spent the day walking around Banda Neira with my camera taking photos of what I see. Banda has such an amazing history, the ...
We set off on a 280nm passage to the Banda Islands, Indonesia and the conditions were mild. Mid afternoon the squalls started piling up on the horizon and we ...
Close encounters with Crocodiles are not on our bucket list, in fact we hope to never see them! We spent a couple of days anchored in a beautiful remote bay, ...
Relatively little is known about the Thresher Shark. In Alor the local fishermen have been catching them for many years, for meat and to sell the fins. A high ...
Sailing remote locations means paying close attention to your boats main elements, rigging, sails, engine, safety equipments etc. In this video I climb the ...
Oelaba on the island of Rote, Indonesia is a pretty special little village. The men in general are away for 10-11 months of the year. They have a very long ...
Marie takes over as Captain as we sail out to a beautiful island in Southern Indonesia. After being aboard for over a year now I thought it time that she got ...
On route from Indonesia to Darwin, Australia this Tayana 37 ran into problems and the decision was made to abandon ship. The 2 crew were picked up by a passing ...
Only a coupe of months in the water after a fresh coat of bottom paint and the hull is covered in growth. To make matters worse, I applied HARD antifoul paint ...
How much water do you need under your keel? I like to have at least 1m but in this situation I made an exception, but only after thoroughly checking the ...
This week my birthday rolled around again. We released some baby turtles, constructed a new table in the galley and had a live screening of the Triple Klown ...
We are still in Rote and loving discovering the culture and the different communities here. A small but very vibrant sailing group has started to arise over ...
Our friends Nicki & Mattia joined us a for a week onboard Schiehallion. After stocking up with fresh fruit & vegetables, some water and petrol for the ...
Rote Island in southeast Indonesia is really a small chunk of paradise. We've been down here a few weeks now and are still discovering new beautiful places and ...
Man Overboard!!!! This is a shituation us cruisers hope that we'll never have to face. Training for this possibility though is very important so I walk Marie ...
Red bananas, who knew? Never seen them myself so we got a bunch and boy they are good! Once a week there is a fresh food market in Nembrala, Rote but you have ...
After 2 weeks quarantine aboard our 37ft boat in the extremely uncomfortable achorage of Kupang were we finally able to pull up the anchor. We had an amazing, ...
Sailing our small boat around Indonesia has been a real adventure, not knowing what's going to happen most days. This video is not about one adventure in ...
How much does it cost to sail a small boat in Indonesia? We get asked this all the time so we made a video of our last provisioning stop in Labuan Bajo, ...
Who's never dreamt of having a private island? Our dreams came true at the perfect moment. Things are not going really well at the moment in Indonesia, covid ...
Sailing along the north coast of Sumbawa, Indonesia we were contacted on Facebook by a guy called Udin. He's an English teacher in the small region of Kilo and ...