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    Followtheboat: The inside story of Esper’s extensive refit

    • 19.05.2020

    With over 2,000 video clips across 51 episodes over 13 months, our refit playlist is a big commitment to wade through, so in this series we separate out and talk…

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    Followtheboat: Things are looking up as Malaysian lockdown eases

    • 12.05.2020

    In Sutera Harbour Marina the pontoon home-made “pubs” are still popular with the seven occupied boats here and Jamie’s in the kitchen making a mess. But when the excitement has…

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    Followtheboat: Why the best boat to sail around the world is a ketch

    • 05.05.2020

    While there are many more cats (and cruisers?) on the water than we first saw 14 years ago, you might be surprised by the high number of ketches you’d stumble…

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    Followtheboat: The challenges of living in isolation on a sailboat

    • 28.04.2020

    Currently Totem is anchored off the coast of Mexico with their plans to sail across the Pacific scuppered by the pandemic. We swapped notes on our respective situations and how…

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    Followtheboat: Top 10 sailing tools every cruising boat needs

    • 21.04.2020

    In the first of our real-time sailing updates from lockdown in Borneo we answer viewers’ questions and try to restrict our top tools to 10. As you’ll discover, it wasn’t…

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    Followtheboat: Living alongside superyachts under lockdown

    • 14.04.2020

    The rules keep changing, but we are safe, secure and remote from the worst of it, as this week’s episode shows. Before anchoring up for the foreseeable future, we enjoyed…

    Followtheboat: How to avoid snagging fishing nets while sailing

    • 07.04.2020

    They range from one-man canoes to smoking ocean trawlers. There are different methods of fishing too, from a single line to vast nets carried between two boats. Sometimes nets are…

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    Followtheboat: Why every sailor should have a bicycle

    • 31.03.2020

    In this video (which was filmed before the lockdown and Movement Restriction Order came into effect on Borneo) we explain why having bikes on board is proving to be pretty…

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    Followtheboat: The challenges of shopping during coronavirus lockdown

    • 24.03.2020

    Then the South Koreans were prevented from coming, which meant almost no tourism. But it worked and we had no coronavirus in Sabah for weeks. Then on 12th March, Sabah…

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    Followtheboat: Millie the boat cat is very ill

    • 24.03.2020

    Little did we know we were in for the long haul and for many more visits over the coming months to a total of four different vets. While we waited…

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    Followtheboat: 24hrs before coronavirus lockdown, borders closing all around us

    • 17.03.2020

    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 an option…

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    Followtheboat: Going off-grid in a Malaysian national park

    • 17.03.2020

    We spent three days walking through the tropical rainforest of Sarawak in central Borneo at the UNESCO site of Gunung Mulu National Park. It was the perfect place for some…

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    Coronavirus: How will COVID-19 affect sailing and cruising?

    • 10.03.2020

    Maybe the best thing for each of us to do is take our sailboat out to sea or to anchor off some remote, desert island? The disease is spreading across…

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    Followtheboat: A new country and a new project

    • 10.03.2020

    But first we must navigate for the next 22 hours through oil and gas rigs. And we need to time our arrival at Miri Marina just right because the sand…

    Latest Icom knowledge base article: Top ten tips to improve your experience when using a marine VHF radio

    • 09.03.2020

    Whether you are new to boating or an experienced mariner, Icom UK have provided ten tips to improve your experience, optimise the use of your marine radio and hopefully keep…

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    Followtheboat Q&A: “Real sailors do not use marinas” So why do we?

    • 03.03.2020

    Two old salts in the marina where we are currently berthed give us their opinion of marinas and why they sometimes find themselves berthed for longer than intended. Shot on…

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    Followtheboat: What we learned from our worst storm in 13 years

    • 25.02.2020

    Miri Marina, our destination, is notoriously difficult to enter. There is a long, shallow sand bar on approach and a narrow channel into the marina only navigable at high tide.…

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    Followtheboat: How we sailed through three lightning storms at night

    • 18.02.2020

    This episode is all about sailing as we make passage from the Anambas archipelago to Borneo. With an early monsoon transitional season kicking up all kinds of capricious winds, we…

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    Coppercoat: The environmentally sensitive antifoul choice *sponsored post*

    • 11.02.2020

    Visit a boatyard in March and you’ll be greeted by the sweet smell of solvents. Known as VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), they are essential to the application and curing of…

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    Followtheboat: Borneo rainforest burns and we go back in time

    • 04.02.2020

    But all the time we were there, smoke from neighbouring Borneo’s rainforest fires drifted across the sea blanketing the island in an eerie pall. It’s something the islanders have become…

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