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oh it's a full-on glass-off out here

we're motoring obviously we got the

mainsail up the water's

so crystal clear you can just see

straight down into

marie setting up the front there half

naked

just looking at squid and sharks

swimming by and whales and we've seen

everything today

quite a bit of plastic as well to be

honest but uh oh incredible day so far

no sailing well we had about first 40

minutes we had good sailing but uh yeah

it's been pretty glassy ever since but

yeah incredible the ocean is so nice

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here

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no four i think

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so

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wow how cool is that our first drone

whale footage this year

i guess there's some sort of pilot whale

i don't know if that was pretty freaking

amazing and the water is

so clear we just

saw them in the distance and then turned

the engine off and just drifted slowly

over with the mainsail up

and then they just came slowly towards

us so i threw the drone up in the air

and like

wow so cool stoked

so we're just out in the middle of the

ocean here this sail's still up we're

holding onto a rope

because the whales we just saw before

from the drone shot

we sort of got in front of them and just

parked the boat and jumped in and hoped

they swim past us

but we can't see them anymore so i don't

know

water's super clear here

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my

going very slowly i'm actually doing

four knots but you're going downwind it

feels like you're not even moving but

we're just threading our way between a

heap of reefs look at this

on the charts a lot of reefs everywhere

and uh making our way down to here to

have a little

stop for the end of the day

been a pretty amazing day with the

whales and swimming in the

beautiful clean super clear water

and uh yeah a bit of motoring bit of

sailing

a bit of snacking smoking snacking

nice mate yeah she did a lot of snacking

she's always hungry

yeah always hungry

show me your six-pack you wouldn't know

she's always hungry she's skinny as a

rake

but yeah sailing makes her hungry that's

good

so we're not far away from the anchorage

now but we're completely downwind well

nearly

yeah 170 degrees but i thought i'd show

you quickly how i do the wing on wing on

shahelian

so i've got the mainsail over to the

winwood side

and then in theory i'd put a pole out on

the jib

but as we're only going another couple

miles it's just sort of letting it float

around freestyle

on the main because on the windward side

and there's there's not really waves

today but

it still wants to come back over towards

the middle sometimes as i don't have the

traveler you've seen in other videos i

have the

dual main sheet system so what i've what

i've done is just taken the main sheet

from the port side

and swung it around and used it as a

preventer

so now you can see i've got again a

triangle basically

of two two main sheets so i can also put

downward pressure on the boom to keep

the sail pretty good i mean i've got the

vang tightened as well but

and the boom can't swing back across

it's only a matter of unclipping this

this quick clip swinging the the pulley

system around and clipping it onto this

pad eye here that's also the spinnaker

blocks

and yeah this one works

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you were good

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and i went back

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you would have flown into the sun

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now it's starting to make sense

i went back to silence

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but i have no chance

well it was a pretty rad day i never

said we were we're

currently sailing along the north coast

of flores in between mao mari

and la bombagio komodo we left malmeri

two days ago so we're just doing little

hops there's a lot of anchorages it's

about

30 35 40 miles sort of days just in

between so

we leave sort of 6 37 in the morning get

here after lunch and then have the

afternoon to relax

and do what we want explore a little bit

and if we

find a good place then we'll stay a

couple of days and if not we just keep

moving

uh the next stop we're expected to be

quite good is

ryon it's called the 17 islands

national park apparently the diving and

the wildlife is pretty good there

so we'll probably stop there for even

even a week we'll see

but where we are today it's just a

little village you can see behind me

um not even sure the name of this place

actually

but yeah it's not very clear water

there's some rivers coming out this

it's good anchoring right in mud here

but you know this afternoon we're just

going to work on editing videos

and we'll peace out here in the morning

but yeah great day as you saw

pretty amazing like not the best sailing

day but

wow those whales incredible just to come

across them and

and be able to film them with the drone

like that um would have been great if

we'd have seen them when we're in the

water but yeah you've gotta

well that basically got to come to us

and that's a small chance because

they're still hunt whales here so i

guess whales is still to

steer clear of humans a little bit

anyway yep i hope you enjoyed that

um i'll give you a little update

actually on what our plans are

long-term plans um obviously

covert is affecting everyone and

everyone's plans worldwide and we don't

really know

what's going on from week to week well

it's settled down a bit now i guess

month to month

most countries are sort of saying now

there's not going to be much change

before the end of this year

tourism wise travel wise some things

have opened some things have closed but

our plan had been to go up to malaysia

haul out

you know look around langkawi phuket for

for the next season i've sort of given

up on that now

um just because it doesn't look like

any of the countries are going to open

um

maybe by the end of the year they will

but by then the

the north monsoon has started and to get

up to there will be a nightmare so

basically we would have to start heading

up there

october end of october at the latest and

i don't think anything's going to change

by then so

nearly given up on that it's probably

going to haul out and do the work in

lombok

and then just see what happens

if it's still nothing opening by the end

of the year we might start heading

back with the with the north monsoon

heading back east

uh through sulawesi back through

indonesia

and then when things open up we'll go

into the pacific you know go through the

solomons again maybe head to new zealand

place like that

um that's sort of the long-term plan

right now as i showed you just now my

mainsail

is not looking too good the patches i

put on at the start of the season

have not held too well i mean they've

lasted till now that's a good

five months nearly four and a half

months and as you've seen in past videos

we had a couple of

50 knot blasts and two like a 48 hour

screaming run with never under 35 knots

so

it's held it's done its job and we're in

the easy

wind part of the trip now so regardless

i'm going to have to

order a new mainsail and i have had

various quotes and i have sort of

gathered information

on what sort of material and it's a bit

it's quite a big investment and it's

quite a big

you know you're going to have that sale

for probably a good six to

ten seven eight years so you don't want

to you know make a mess of it or just

jump right in so i've done my research

now

and i'm pretty i've narrowed it down but

i'm pretty sure what i'm going to buy

it's always a toss-up between money and

i mean if money was no object i'd buy

the best material

with dyneema threading and you know

basically a race sale that's made for

cruising those sales are

nearly three times as much as a good

dacron sale but they're not going to

last three times longer or have three

times better shape

so i'm sort of going to do a compromise

i'm going to go for the

the middle range not the cheap and not

the

not the really expensive but i'll talk

more about that in an upcoming episode

because

i'm going to walk you through how i have

because i'm doing this remotely i'll

have to measure the boat for the sale

i'll have to really really go through it

in depth because if i get a sales into

indonesia there's no sail lofts

and i want to make sure it's right

because if if it comes in it's wrong i

don't really have much chance of getting

it repaired or getting it reshaped

anyway so

i'll probably do another another section

of a video on that but anyway just to

let you know because

uh you patrons and people who are

sending money to my paypal it's

basically you guys buying this sale for

me

so you'll be sailing with me once this

new sale goes up

so i thought i'd let you know and just

keep you up to date with what's

happening with the sale

anyway things are in the works hope you

enjoyed this video

and yeah as i said thanks so much

patrons there's more and more of you

sending money directly to paypal which

is it which is a good thing because

i mean patrons great don't get me wrong

but they are

getting slightly more greedy as the

months go by they're taking 10

of all income now which is you know it's

your guys money 10 percent of it's not

coming

directly to me who you know who you're

trying to support

it's still great and i still like

patreon but it's one of those things

when the company gets bigger and more

staff and more

fancier more more options and all that

their costs go up

and i guess their their need for profit

goes up so

yeah sending it directly to paypal cuts

out the middleman as such

but anyway it's all it's all awesome i'm

super grateful for any

any 10 cents that comes away at the

moment because we don't have any other

income right now

i hope you guys are enjoying these

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thanks for watching bye