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WINDLASS INSTALLED BUT MORE DISASTERS! Ep 58
We install our Lofrans Tigres windlass but you know for every positive achievement there's a whole bunch of dark clouds hanging over us. The outboard is buggered, the toilet is leaking and now we've cooked our batteries. Will we ever get to leave for Indon...
HOW TO CHOOSE AN ANCHOR WINDLASS. Ep 57
How to choose a windlass. Or, what windlass should we buy to replace our mangled mess at the front of the boat? There's some technical boat maintenance stuff in this episode but there's also some rather splendid drone footage of the beautiful tropical isla...
DISASTER! OUR ANCHOR WINDLASS IS BROKEN! Ep 56
Imagine if this windlass malfunction happened on a remote Indonesian coast? In this episode Jamie reaches the end of his tether when the anchor windlass decides it has had enough. In order to diagnose the problem it has to be removed from the deck, and th...
WORLD’S BIGGEST YACHT, WORLD’S FIRST BAMBOO SCHOONER, AMERICA’S CUP ORIGINS. Ep 55
'Mirabella V' (M5), is the world's largest single-masted yacht, whilst 'Coracle' is the world's first bamboo schooner. And back in olde England Liz discovers where in 1583 Sir Walter Raleigh set off on his third expedition to 'The New World'! In this epis...
Are you a tourist? Are sailors tourists? Sailing Q&A 12
As a long-term traveller, do you ever really cross the boundary as a tourist and become a local? Are you kidding yourself if you think you are? We know some people who have really assimilated, but they are few and far between. This is the last in our dail...
THE TRUTH ABOUT BOAT REFITS! Sailing Q&A 11
You may have already watched the weekly reports from our year-long refit in Thailand...but don't just take our word for it. In today's daily vlog, we chat to Barry about his refit experience at Krabi Boat Lagoon. Like us, he learned a lot about working i...
“I’ve had enough of sailing. It’s time to quit!” Sailing Q&A 10
To paraphrase a famous general, "old sailors never die; they just fade away". Or maybe they just fall in love... Does the time arrive in every sailor's life when slipping the lines becomes a chore and the spreading of roots becomes the goal? How do you kn...
Do you drink and sail? Is it OK? Do you? – Sailing Q&A 7
Are you a drunken sailor? In the first of our daily vlogs, we address the emotive subject of drinking whilst sailing. Should you do it? Do you do it? Is it OK for passengers, but not crew? Do you have any stories of drinking and sailing? This is the fir...
MY SAILING SECRET, NEW SAILS & STORM TACTICS… Ep 54
Jamie has a secret. A big sailing secret. Find out what bothers him in this episode. Also we get Phil Auger of Zoom Sails to come and measure Esper for some new sails. In doing so we discover the real state of our current sails, including wears, rips and ...
FAST SAILING – HOW CLOSE TO THE WIND CAN WE GET? Ep 53
We make a pre-dawn start on a 45 mile sail south from Chalong Bay. As we head clear of Phuket, the Indian Ocean swell is met by strong easterlies, giving us a fast and wet sail to Koh Rok Nok, yet another of our favourite islands in Thailand. Those easter...
WE FOUND THE BEST RUM IN THAILAND! BOAT PREP BEGINS… Ep 52
"You're not a sailor unless you know your rum", according to an old nautical legend made up just now for this introduction. We go hunting for a mythical white rum before we start to think about preparations for a long trip towards Indonesia. There's ripp...
INDONESIA HERE WE COME! SEASICK, ANYONE? Ep 51
We've been talking about it for a while, but now we are excited to announce that we have finally made a concrete decision (well, as concrete as you can be on a non-ferrocement sailboat) and we're off to Indonesia! The plan is to start with a circumnavigati...
1ST DJi MAVIC PRO FOOTAGE! + PIRATE JAM. Ep 50
Pirate game jammers and spectacular Mavic Pro drone footage! In this special episode we take six games developers from around the world on a trip around Ko Lanta and Ko Jum (Ko Pu), where they discover the delights of Thailand, from trekking to swimming to...
RIPPED SAIL & MAVIC PRO DRONE! Ep 49
09:47 Mavic Pro Boat maintenance in paradise and the Mavic Pro drone. You've heard the 'boat maintenance...' quote many times and this episode is testament to that . Cruising one of Thailand's hidden gems, Ko Chang (no, not that one), we rip a sail and ha...