How much does it cost to sail a small boat in Indonesia? We get asked this all the time so we made a video of our last provisioning stop in Labuan Bajo, Komodo. Now this just includes food, water, fuel for about a month.
We also address the issue brought up in last weeks video about the drastic lack of fish in Indonesian waters, watch till the end to see that.
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welcome to another video guys uh

this week we're in la bombagio and

stocking up for two or three four weeks

possibly away on the boat we're not

quite sure yet

we thought we'd give you a little

yeah just show you how we do it and uh

more than that give you a little

breakdown of the costs involved with uh

just basic living costs on a boat here

in indonesia

nothing like maintenance and all those

sort of costs are just basically fuel

water

food vegetables fruit all that sort of

stuff

just the basic living costs you know uh

nothing too too mind-blowing probably

but just to give you an idea of you know

how you can live here we live relatively

simply so obviously you can probably add

another 50 to 100 on some people

depending on how much alcohol you drink

and how much

fancy you know fancy cheeses and things

like that you buy wine it's a big one a

lot of people like to buy wine and that

obviously uh here in indonesia and

alcohol is not a

an everyday product put it that way and

so it's way more expensive

so anyway enjoy this uh video and let us

know in the comments below

uh you know what you thought whether

we're living cheaper or more expensively

than than you thought and uh yeah enjoy

we are always choosing to go in local

markets for all the fresh food

first because about the price is really

better and secondly you have really lot

of choice and you can have help

from the seller of how to cook and they

explain to you what it is you can

sometimes try things and in supermarkets

you have only like kind of western foods

like apples pears and this kind of stuff

but in general already in plastic and i

don't know what they put inside but you

can keep it forever in the fridge and i

don't i don't really trust it

so yeah it's quite good to go in the

market and

every cities or bigger place have the

specialities the kind of veggies they

like and it depends also of the season

it it's quite good to find it like that

the market in la bon bajo is quite good

you have a lot of fresh product probably

because the region of riyong is a super

fertile place with a lot of agriculture

there

and they have always super good things

last year it was the same

so we just filled up about fruits and

vegetables also a bit of chicken

and as you can see

by

preparing in advance every package for

every meal so i can freeze some of them

for the longer way when we don't find

any markets or place to shopping

and even for the fridge it's quite easy

to have directly something ready and i

know exactly the portion i'm gonna have

so we did the little package

then cut some of the carrots and beans

it's gonna be in the freezer i have some

piece of chicken

as you

saw probably in the videos like here

they don't have really proper butcher

way of cutting the meat it's quite

random and you have a lot of buns inside

it's not always easy to cook like this

but this is what it is and the chicken

is super good in indonesia

i already prepared some um

aromat like chilies coriander

um here i have kefir and other kind of

soft chilies not hot and yeah i'm gonna

prepare also tomato sauce

to put in the freezer later

and from the fruit we have some ready

banana already yellow some green ones

and potatoes

and we're gonna go this afternoon to buy

some other

dry stuff us pasta rice and all of this

and we're gonna details about the price

later

as you can see here the local market

very good products uh friendly people

and very cheap this is about two to

three weeks worth of fresh product for

us here

change the prices here to us dollars

obviously from indonesian repair the

majority of uh viewers on this channel

are from the us i sort of figure that's

a pretty international standard yeah two

or three weeks worth of fresh food a

total of 13.60

i think everyone can agree that is uh

pretty good and that's a whole chicken

as well which is about seven eight meals

for us if we put it in curries and

things so

yeah pretty good

ready

half the shopping done

i also want to present you our new

plants like for me it's super important

a little bit less for vernon but

in kilo the super nice wooden give us

from his garden aloe vera so now

as you can see

we have an angular gout aloe vera

super good really like if you have a

sunburn or if you have anything for the

skin for the hair super good and he also

gave us this

fresh coriander

we're staying here

and super good also for the food like

even if we have only cans and stuff just

put a little bit of really fresh things

inside always make me feel better

and also i don't know if it's just

psychological but being on the boat out

of the land on the ocean i'm super happy

to have like plants and a little bit of

earth

on our boat that helped me to feeling a

little bit more connected to the land

even if we are far on the ocean

right so next up we have the supermarket

now this one's sort of hard to judge

because a lot of the stuff we buy at the

supermarket

uh you know it might last us the next

three four months because

we've been this way before and we know

as we go east there are less and less

good supermarkets with you know pasta

and

high quality sort of stuff that you know

we would like to cook you know so that

the fresh fruit and veg markets and rice

and all that sort of stuff you find

everywhere in indonesia but

cheese for example yogurt um

some chocolate biscuits i don't know

like just western stuff probably stuff

we shouldn't really eat that much of

actually but you can't find in the east

on the eastern side supermarkets don't

even have refrigerators or freezers so

anything like dairy products are out

so here we sort of took the opportunity

as one of the last places to stock up so

our bill is a bit higher here uh for

this whole list of stuff you see

the total at this main supermarket is

146 us dollars

which uh for us it's it's a lot you know

that's like wow that's a that's a lot

but as i said you know there's a you

know i stocked up on muesli for example

you can't buy that further down the road

you can only get rolled oats and not you

know i i make my own music with rolled

oats and

and

toasted muesli and add nuts and beans

and dried fruit and stuff to it so all

those ingredients you can't really get

more in the east so

yeah this was quite an expensive one but

but unlike the the fresh fruit and veg

but you know it's two or three weeks

worth this parts of it will last us

months and months so yeah that's that's

all right reasonable also in love and

budget we found an italian deli

there's a really good italian pizzeria

and i think it's the same owners who own

the deli as they got to import all their

stuff for their restaurant they have a

little shop and there

well marie loves going there you know

like it's a pretty awesome stuff there

but uh

sort of expensive as well but it is very

specialty and we really do appreciate on

the boat for example you can get

wholemeal flour there so she's baking

bread and stuff all the time and it's

really nice to not just have white bread

or pumpkin seeds we can put that in the

bread or in my muesli for example or

yeah

yogurt feta cheese and cheddar cheese

you know you can't get that anywhere and

it's really nice if you know if you make

a pizza or something to have good cheese

on there so you know you have to not

always just think about money but you

got to enjoy yourself too so that came

to

35.80 and it's not much you know but uh

we're really going to appreciate

spending that money

next up i didn't really get any footage

much of this but um

water and fuel

so we don't have a water maker it's

something that we're contemplating

getting sometime in the future but you

can't just get a water maker you need to

upgrade your battery and power system

and or get a generator whatever you know

it's not just water maker

and we don't really have a problem with

water it would just be a luxury to have

a water maker so

400 litres we have in tanks and then a

couple jerry cans for showering like

just spare 450 litres pretty much we

carry with us and this lasts us a month

without any worries and if we're really

saving five to six weeks we've never

gone that far but we could

and that's it ten

ten dollars fifty to get that much water

so for a month of water that's that's

fine

uh 60 liters of diesel well that will

last

well we're heading east and we're

against the trade winds but still

that'll last two to three months don't

really motor much with this boat

uh and the 20 liters of petrol

that's for the outboard on the the the

dinghy so use that a little bit more

often but also not really 20 liters will

last two months for sure so that's you

know 65 90

for for

a month of water and two three months

worth of fuel so pretty reasonable as

well and then last up the last of the

opening of the wallet which makes me

happy is all the sort of extra bits and

pieces you know like we had to rent a

motorbike because you gotta you know go

to all the shops and and

yeah you don't be paying a taxi or

whatever we always rent motorbikes and

it's always just you pay cash you don't

sign anything you just it's normally

some guy on the beach who just doesn't

need his motorbike so that's a hundred

thousand repair a day which is about uh

yeah it's eight bucks a day

um if you rent it for three four days

you can normally sort of get like one

day free or if it's a week you'll get

you know two days free something like

that

the guys that delivered the the fuel and

water

it's just easier to pay someone in a

bigger dinghy and you know they get it

from the dock whereas we'd have to load

it sometimes i'll load it in my dinghy

and bring it out but

you know it's it's a lot harder because

then i'm in the dinghy and have to put

it in the boat but anyway that's that's

another eight bucks

made life easier could have saved that

money if i'd done it myself

uh three days on a mooring boy 20 bucks

that's quite expensive for here actually

and we didn't really need it uh it just

meant that

normally we wouldn't do that but because

we were just in la bombagio to restock

being on a mooring boy meant that we

could be really close to the beach

whereas if you anchor you're around the

corner you're out of the harbor sort of

and then it means a 10 minute dinghy

ride and so you're burning more fuel but

if the wind pops up

you know then you're getting waves

overboard and you've just done your

shopping and it's getting all wet and

you know so just

just for that sort of thing when we're

here

buying stuff

and going to the beach numerous times

per day you know it's got a mooring boy

yeah it's 20 bucks whatever it makes

life easier

and then to top it off uh yeah we went

and splurged actually on a on a pretty

uh

amazing

real authentic italian restaurant

and we had a couple of craft beers each

best beer we've had since we've been in

indonesia two pizzas uh

maybe we even had a dessert i can't

remember but that was the astronomical

amount of six hundred thousand rupiah

that's about two weeks wages for a local

person or a week anyway

but yeah forty bucks the reason we went

to this

amazing restaurant not the only reason

but one of the reasons was that

cool friends glenn and summer of uh this

boat called nativa who help out a lot of

people in the islands in the pacific

summer send some money

to my paypal with the stipulation i take

murray out to a nice restaurant at the

next available

uh occasion so yeah this was that

occasion and i'd like to thank you

glenn and summer for thinking about that

everyone needs to go and have a

little bit of luxury every now and again

i'll go and ask marie about what she

thinks

did you hear

how did you enjoy the pizzeria

that was awesome

like a really cool place that i could

completely forgot where i am could be in

europe super good beers

fresh from you know not in the bottle

like the proper ones you have in the bar

and really like the dough was amazing

and all the ingredients super good and i

had a really good relaxing time there

thanks summer thanks summer thank you so

much

so that was uh

the end of the expenditures yeah what

happens normally is that we do this

every now and again this big load up and

then the wallet gets put there and

doesn't actually get touched again for

at least a month

so while it hurts

to go out and spend all this money and

then

next time we go and spend it i'm going

to go and search for my wallet and be

like oh how i don't even know if i've

got money in there still or whatever so

yeah it's sort of spend and then spend

nothing for quite a while but that's

sort of how sailing goes too you sail

your boat for a year and spend nothing

on it nothing breaks and then you go and

haul out and then suddenly you've got

ten thousand bucks worth of stuff you've

got to replace on it that's just the way

it is

right so we are literally

nearly live with these videos now

what i'm filming right now i'll be

putting on the computer editing and

you'll be seeing later on today so like

we're there and that's sort of cool

because last week's video

uh we sort of had a little bit of a rant

or ask some questions to you guys why

you know the lack of fish and and uh

you know pristine conditions corals

healthy a lot of food in the water

plankton all that sort of stuff and no

fish of any size around you know and so

thanks for you guys as feedback and uh

you know most of you sort of came to the

same conclusion as me i guess it's just

overfishing no regulation uh lack of

education on on leaving certain species

until they can breed and sort of things

like that sort of logical really but i

mean sort of remote island so and now we

moved about what 30 miles into komodo

park um

it's got ranges there's no netting mono

fishing of any sort although you know

you do see people fishing but it's

definitely i guess the fishermen that

can afford to pay the rangers something

but

yeah what a difference i mean you're

going to see in this next little clip i

put together

you can see the difference in a little

bit of regulation and it's not like

australian national park style but it is

regulated and yeah wow we get in the

water and this is what it should be like

you know it's uh it's crazy and the

thing is all of these fish that you're

seeing are growing to adult size

breeding and propagating outwards so all

they need to do

is put some of these little areas spread

them throughout indonesia and just make

no fishing zones and then the fishermen

would actually profit from that in the

end because these fish grow up and move

on you know so it's education it's uh

yeah it's just

it's sad to see because they're really

you know

that they're really just picking up

their

dregs now you know just like fish

probably a generation ago they wouldn't

eat like oh that tastes terrible now

they're happy to get because that's all

there is anyway enjoy this little clip

we certainly enjoyed diving there and

watching and seeing and being with all

these fish it felt like the world was

slightly normal again

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right guys that brings us to the end of

another video i thought this would be a

short one turns out it's another 20

minute video but uh

no one seems to complain too much or

maybe you do it and just click off i

don't know but uh let me know maybe if i

need to shorten this

anyway yeah just a bit of a brief

insight actually you know i hope it's

interesting to some of you i get quite a

few emails about this sort of thing you

know how much it costs how much money

you need per year and it's impossible

for me to you know say i can just give

my version uh everyone lives differently

everyone has a different boat that you

know is more complex or simple you know

whatever

and some people more comfortable

living simply than others you know like

if you need to drink wine with every

meal you're going to spend a lot more

than well than we do anyway

uh yeah speaking of money

couldn't really uh

you know do this without you guys that

are actually giving us some so um thank

you to the patrons i've uploaded some

high-res pictures to you guys in the

last few days um i was neglecting that a

little bit lately uh

but yeah as as always can't thank you

guys enough it's um

really really

amazing that that you guys are willing

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gives us a

a real um sense of you know achievement

when we upload and we know that you guys

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straight away and send us comments and

and and you know the guys in the group

chat you're real you know it's cool as

well a bit of day to day band to

backwards and forwards and things like

that so yeah thank you all so much

um

next week is a little gap that's our

three for the month and uh yeah we'll be

back at you probably before you even

miss us

see you next time

see you bye