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Our Yacht Was Rammed By An Indonesian Customs Boat – S5 Ep 123
Leaving Kendari, Sulawesi our sail boat was rammed by an Indonesian Customs Boat. What did we do wrong? Nothing apparently. We had reluctantly gone to the city of Kendari to get fuel after not finding any diesel available at our previous stop on Pulau Wowoni. Other cruisers had reported experiences...
Finding Remote Anchorages with Satellite Images
Sailing around the remote Indonesian island of Sulawesi, we rely on satellite imagery to find stunning, safe anchorages. In this episode we do just that with our buddy boaters at an amazing beach where the dense, tropical jungle cascades down the mountainous coast to meet powder white sand, fringed ...
We’re Aground On A Remote Island – Sulawesi, Indonesia S5 Episode 121
We’re in for a surprise when we wake in the morning to leave Excelsior Cove. The boat is aground so we’re stuck and not going anywhere for a while. When the tide eventually lifts Our Dreamtime off the seabed, we sail over calm seas to anchor at the town of Raha, Sulawesi in search of ancient civilis...
All Alone in Nature’s Tropical Playground – Sailing Sulawesi, Indonesia – S5 Ep120
THIS is why we go sailing. To be all alone and at one with nature in amazing anchorages like the one featured here. Floating calmly in warm, crystal-clear waters above pure white sands, brilliant corals and abundant sea life while surrounded by amazing rock formations and lush, tropical jungle with ...
From Ocean Debris to Balinese Hindu Fire Ritual – Sailing to Buton, Indonesia – S5 Ep 119
Join us as we sail our classic ketch through the stunning waters of Southeast Asia, journeying from the remote village of Baopinang in Sulawesi to the vibrant port city of Bau Bau on Buton Island, Indonesia. In this episode, we navigate through pristine seascapes before encountering masses of trees ...
Anchored beside shocking destruction in Indonesia – Episode 118
During our first three weeks sailing the coast of Sulawesi we met many, many beautiful, welcoming people and saw nothing but the unbelievable beauty of the world’s eleventh largest island. But in this episode, we finally come face to face with the environmental vandalism of unregulated nickel mining...
Sailing Where No One Else Has, We Learn To Expect The Unexpected In Sulawesi, Indonesia – Ep 117
Ever heard of Palopo? How about Lasusua? No? Don’t feel bad because there are probably very few people on Earth who have. They are two very rarely visited towns on opposite sides of the gulf like Bone Bay in a remote area of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia but they’re precisely the towns we’re ...
Living With The Dead In Tana Toraja – Indonesia
The unique and intricate death customs of Tana Toraja have been celebrated for centuries, making them some of the most complex and expensive funeral traditions in the world. Before Dutch Christian Missionaries arrived, Torajans practiced Animism, the belief that non-human entities possess a spiritua...
Getting diesel with a horse and cart, LOMBOK style. (ep 287)
Sailing in Indonesia means you need to be flexible and adaptive. Almost nothing is as it is in western countries and that includes finding and buying fuel. I'm nearly out of diesel and it's time to track some down. Now the easiest way would be to just pay a local to go get it for me but I ...
A Happy Sailor’s Heart In Remote Sulawesi
In this episode we sail, we motor sail and we get stuck with our anchor wrapped up in an old net in the harbour at Tanjung Siwa. Don’t worry, we’ll show you a very quick and easy way to untangle a fouled anchor. After sailing in Greece we have plenty of experience. Then we motor sail again and, fin...
Why Motor Sailing Is Not A Sin and How To Clear A Fouled Anchor
We’re sailing with friends Daniel and Emma on our our buddy boat Lola B in an area of the huge Indonesian Island of Sulawesi very rarely visited by cruising boats. We’ve only scratched the surface so far but we’re already in love with this amazing area. As we move ever closer to the equator the wind...
The Amazing Timber Ship Builders of Sulawesi – Indonesia
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional phinisi wooden ships. If you’d like access to our live-tracker ...
Decision time, Aluminium Project boat or Keep our Catamaran? (ep 286)
I flew to Australia to see a 54ft Aluminium sailing boat called Ivanhoe. It would need a total rebuild from bottom up and that is a HUGE job. Our budget would be AU$100k and 12 months to get the job done. Last week I showed you guys Ivanhoe and most of you told me to RUN AWAY!. Well I flew back to B...
Where You Can Still Be First Yacht Ever To Anchor At An Island Paradise – S5 Episode 114
We sail to a complex of reefs in remote Sulawesi, Indonesia and discover a great anchorage at a tiny island. Here we are enthusiastically welcomed by the villagers, who tell us we are the very first westerners ever to visit their stunning home. They proudly showed us around their small but truly bea...
Shall I buy this HUGE Aluminium project boat? (ep 285)
Ivanhoe is a 54ft Aluminium sailing boat that is in total disrepair. I fly to Australia just to look this boat over and to see if it's the right project for us to take on. She was built as a flat-topped racing boat, then years later changes were made to convert her to a cruising boat but nothi...
Timber Shipbuilders of Indonesia #sailing #sulawesiindonesia
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional wooden ships The Bugis are the predominate ethnic group on sou...
Makassar to Bali, 375 miles, our best sailing passage ever! (ep 284)
Our circumnavigation of Sulawesi is completed and its time to sail southwest to Bali. The passage is around 375nm and we expect it to take 48hrs. A really nice forecast is predicted but we know by now that in these waters this is really just a guess. Trade Runner has ben prepared and checked over, w...
The Bugis – Master Builders of the Traditional Timber Sailboats of Indonesia – S5 Episode 113
After sailing to Bira on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, we explore the world of the Bugis people, once fearsome pirates and the origin of bogeyman myths, now famous worldwide for their amazing skills handcrafting massive traditional wooden ships The Bugis are the predominate ethnic group on sou...
Sailing a Traditional Indonesian wooden ship (NO ENGINE). (episode 283)
Sailing this magnificent hand built vessel for a day was pretty amazing! Anugerah Ilahi was built in a year, painstaking labour with simple tools on a beach near Makassar, Indonesia. She is a Pelari, a traditional trading vessel, used for hundreds of years in these waters. Horst Liebner is a German...
Chased Out Of An Anchorage By Explosives – Series 5 Episode 112
There’s a first time for everything and before stopping at Pulau Sabalana on our way to Sulawesi, we’d never been chased out of an anchorage with explosives before. When the locals started throwing sticks of dynamite around the boat we got out of there as fast as we could. Fortunately we avoided bei...
Marie PROPOSED, on my 50th Birthday! (episode 282)
We are ENGAGED! Marie proposed to me at 06.30 on my 50th birthday. She made a tinfoil ring and presented it in her rayban sunglasses case. What a girl! We continued our 1000 mile passage from Manado to Makassar in Sulawesi, having some great wind and we even got to race against our future boat, Sv J...
Our Best Night Sail EVER Island Hopping Towards Sulawesi – S5 Episode 111
Isn’t it fantastic when a plan works. In this episode we take into account wind, swell, current and weather forecasts plus satellite imagery of potential anchorages before undertaking a 110 nautical mile overnight passage to the remote island of Sapuka Besar as our next step towards Sulawesi. The co...
Our BIGGEST year ever! (episode 281)
Find all the prints here: 2024 was a huge year for us, not only were we new parents with our 3 month old son Eli aboard, we also planned a very challenging adventure, circumnavigating Sulawesi. It was to be a very excellent adventure indeed, we sailed over 5500km, got hit by a huge ferry, got sick...