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Goodbye Millie. Sailing cat and best friend.
June 2007 - 13th June 2020 Goodbye Millie, our beloved sailing cat, best friend and loyal crew member. From a kitten in Turkey to a veteran sea cat in Malaysia, Millie has sailed for 13 years and for thousands of miles. Across oceans, in storms, dodging pirates, crossing continents: fishing all the ...
How we started sailing (the story so far) – Sailing Ep200
This is the story so far of how we started sailing. With extra footage and images of us you won't have seen before from way back in 2006 when we were getting to grips with our first sailboat. Watch us read our HORRIBLE comments at 21:21 From Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean, east Africa, thro...
Things are looking up! – Sailing Ep 197
Things are looking up here on followtheboat. The rules are relaxing, the pontoon "pubs" are open (bring your own beer) and Jamie's in the kitchen. But when the excitement has dipped on your sailboat project and you're stuck in a rut, how do you motivate yourself? We answer thre...
What is the best sailboat to sail around the world? – Sailing Ep196
In a cruising world dominated by catamarans and light-displacement boats, the ketch rig seems almost antiquated among the YouTube generation. But if you’re serious about off-shore sailing, the ketch rig has proven its worth time and time again, even by today’s standards. So, is the best sailboat to ...
Top 10 Tools Every Cruising Sailboat Needs: Real-time Sailing Update Ep 194
👉 World Health Organisation Mythbusting: What are the top 10 tools every cruising sailboat needs? In this real-time sailing update we answer your questions and try to restrict our top tools to 10. As you'll find out, it wasn't that easy. And we're just talking toolbox here, not all...
Isolated In Our New Home: Real-time Sailing Update Ep 193
👉 World Health Organisation Mythbusting: We are isolated in our new "home", locked in with the big boats at Sutera Harbour Marina, Borneo. To be honest we can't think of a better place to be right now: safe, friendly, beautiful and remote. But before we arrived here, there was one ...
How to avoid fishing nets on a sailboat – Sailing Ep 192
👉 Filmed before the worldwide emergency. World Health Organisation busts the myths 👈 04:56 How to avoid fishing nets and lines One of the biggest headaches for cruisers in SE Asia is the sheer number of fishing boats at work close to land and off-shore, anything from one-man canoes to smoking tr...
How to make an ocean plait mat + boat cat Millie is very ill – Sailing Ep 190
👉Filmed before the current worldwide emergency👈 While we waited for Millie's results and some improvement to her health, we got on with boat jobs and explored the area around the marina. 04:01 And Jamie had a demonstration from Roy of 'SV Seven Thunders' on how to make an ocean plai...
Why should every sailboat have a bicycle? – Sailing Q&A 40
Should every sailboat have a bicycle? Maybe not if it's a racing yacht or if your superyacht already has its own helicopter, but for cruisers, we reckon a bicycle on a sailboat does amazing things. Filmed before the lockdown and Movement Restriction Order came into effect on Borneo, having bike...
Going out during lockdown without getting arrested? – Stranded04
👉 World Health Organisation Mythbusting: If you flout the Movement Restriction Order in Malaysia you could end up in jail for six months or receive a $250 fine. As the infection is spreading here, we do not leave the marina because shopping in lockdown can be unnerving. But occasionally we need f...
Nowhere to run: living in total lockdown on a sailboat – Stranded03
👉 World Health Organisation Mythbusting: With nowhere to run, we are living in total lockdown here in the marina on our sailboat. Each day there are more restrictions and countries nearby are closing their ports. And now it looks like Malaysia is about to stop all sailing vessels from cruising in...
24 hours before lockdown: borders closing around us – Stranded02
👉 World Health Organisation Mythbusting: What do you do when your visa is about to run out as countries around you are closing their borders? To renew a visa in Malaysia you have to do a 'border run', but what happens when the borders are closing? Sailing to the Philippines is no longer...
A new country, a new project – Sailing Ep 188
Another 100 miles to go before arriving in a new country to start a new project. But first we need to navigate for the next 22 hours through oil and gas rigs. And we need to time our entrance into Miri Marina perfectly because the sand bar along the coast is treacherous to sail across in rough weat...
Why sailors and cruisers are concerned right now – Stranded01
👉 World Health Organisation Mythbusting: There are a few reasons why sailors and cruisers are concerned right now about the current situation just as much as our landlubbing friends. Maybe the best thing for each of us to do is take our sailboat out to sea or to anchor off some remote, desert isl...
Lightning storms all night – sailing 500 miles Pt 1 – Ep 186
We show you how we sailed through lightning storms all night. After 100 miles into a 500 mile crossing in a small sailboat crossing in the open sea, we ran for shelter. A storm five-miles wide hung over the harbour as we navigated in 50m visibility through a narrow reef-lined channel. Boy, did we ne...