We've been sailing almost daily this past couple of months, covering lots of new ground and discovering amazing new places to us. The sailing has ben great as you've seen in recent videos, pretty good consistent wind, relatively calm waters and best of all, Marie is really turning into a good sailor. She's adapting well, learning fast on what needs to be packed up, tidied away etc before we set off. She's thinking ahead and preparing food and researching our destinations too. I'm slowly teaching her the technical aspects of sailing, she's tacking alone now, is able to do night watches, reef the headsail etc.
Moyo Island had been a place we'd been looking forward to visiting. It sits just north of Sumbawa. There are no really good anchorages, they all tend to be very affected by swell but the place is very worth the visit. Great snorkelling is to be had but the main attraction for us was the Mata Jitu waterfall. Maybe the most beautiful waterfall I've ever been too.
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during the sailing today

we cooked some chicken but as you can

see it's pretty

hard to do it's moving a lot but we're

gonna have a super good lunch

once i got the bread yeah the bread tea

to enjoy the juice of the chicken

you ready you have to open your mouth

okay

fresh bread with chicken broth well done

hello everyone and welcome to another

episode learning by doing

sailing along very slowly downwind

i should have the spinnaker up in theory

but i've only got four miles to go and

i'm feeling a bit lazy

last night we stayed out on an island

about 20 miles back that way

sort of an offshore island called madang

it was beautiful we're just now sailing

to a little anchorage i've seen on the

maps

on the north eastern no the north

western tip

of zumbawa and tomorrow we'll do the

crossing over to lombok

we're finally getting into lombok which

is pretty exciting yeah this has been a

pretty cool little crossing today only

20 something miles pretty mellow we

actually

were flying along and now the wind

shifted round

to yeah 170 so it was pretty slow now

but it was a good

good first few hours and uh as you've

seen

marie got pretty motivated this morning

and put a chicken in

the oven to roast and got a bread going

as well so we're going to have an

amazing lunch when we arrive at the

anchorage we left pretty early this

morning so we're going to arrive there

well before lunch

so yesterday we met up with a friend of

mine from bali scott

and his girlfriend and the captain and

they were on a catamaran

and we met up at island called moyo and

they took us up to this

amazing waterfall called mata jitu

i think matajutu it means the sniper for

some reason

anyway we hiked up there it was 7k got

the legs warmed up

and um man what an amazing place as

you'll see

in this upcoming footage an incredible

incredible place we had a ball up there

the water was

well obviously fresh but it was super

cool but not too cold

and uh the light and yeah there was no

one around and there was no

concreted steps or entry gates it was

just a

pristine waterfall in the jungle and it

was incredible so i hope you enjoy this

footage

and yeah there'll be some sailing

footage at the end and i'll get back to

you later

bye

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so now we have a little bit more wind so

we go more speed pretty good

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yeah so as you can see now set the boat

up wing on wing we're going straight

down wind

and this time i got the pole out and

yeah same

same way of putting the preventer on

with the

double mainsheet and yeah that's our um

anchorage straight up in front

yeah it sort of feels like we're not

moving now but we're still doing five

knots but it's just uh

flat and smooth beautiful sailing

little tip when you're taking off and

when you're landing fairly head sail

point downwind or down swell whichever

is better

and just try and make the boat as stable

as possible and as slow as possible

throw it up in the air you can forget

about it get going again put your sails

out

make the boat look racier get her on its

side film what you want

i normally come back when i've got 50 45

50

i start coming back just because it

landing is the harder part and it takes

you

might take you a couple of go so you

don't want to come back on 20 and be

yeah losing your drone but it's pretty

easy to have to be scared i don't wear

gloves i've never hurt myself

obviously it's harder when you've got a

big swell but um yeah anyway i hope you

enjoyed that footage

hope you enjoyed this video uh super

cool to have you all you guys along

especially patrons

really really love the um the passion

and the

the motivation and you know you guys are

inspiring us with your comments and all

that to keep going and uh

we love doing it and yeah this journey

is freaking amazing so

tune in next week no idea what it's

going to be but i'm sure it'll be cool

and uh yeah thanks for watching bye