After 2 weeks quarantine aboard our 37ft boat in the extremely uncomfortable achorage of Kupang were we finally able to pull up the anchor. We had an amazing, fun and fast 70nm sail down to Rote Island.
Marie spends her first days and night alone on Schiehallion. I had to fly back to Kupang for a couple of days so she was captain for the first time! Actually we never spend time apart so it was a bit strange for both of us but we enjoyed the time apart, each doing our own program. We'd just spent nearly 3 weeks cooped up aboard in Quarantine so the timing was good.
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Good morning, Good morning

What a good morning, wow dream sailing  right now, 10 knots of wind. beam reach,  

we're doing six and a half, completely  flat seas. What would you call that babe?  

You call that champagne sailing, here  i'm calling this a comfortable moment.

okay yeah but yeah both, either way pretty awesome.

g'day people we're back after a little bit  well what feels like for us quite a while  

without any uh filming we've been yeah i guess  for you guys we didn't really have a gap but  

uh for us we haven't filmed for about three weeks  now so we're back to pretty much live real time um  

yeah we just got a gust of wind and picked up  spread we're going down the channel next to  

kupang now it's got 20 knots of wind should trim  the sails a little bit anyway um it's crazy how  

this boat just picks up speed we went from four  knots to eight knots like so yeah we've just spent  

three weeks basically in kupang we came to kupeng  we checked in did all the swab tests checked  

out went to dilly and lit timor lester stayed  there two hours got stamps in our boat papers  

sailed back it's a round trip of uh 350 miles  got back to kupang like three days later and uh  

yeah check back in but obviously checking back  into indonesia had to do eight days quarantine uh  

two pcr tests and yeah that obviously you know  indo style sort of went a bit haywire and uh  

tests took a long time to come back so we ended  up doing i think 12 days of quarantine which was  

pretty annoying because the anchorage was uh super  wavy and just horrible so we were just yeah it was  

a bit of a nightmare but all in all it went okay  and uh we're we're back in indonesia now and the  

boat has three more years of uh import paid why  not paid but we're stamped in for three more years  

so not that we'll stay that long hopefully  but it just takes a load off our mind like uh  

you know we we're all we're all secure now  you know we've got our visas the boat's  

legit so all good but now yeah and we've been  thinking about this for the last couple of months  

you know not knowing if we would be able to get  back into indo and all that so yeah we're feeling  

a lot more comfortable now right yeah definitely  much better and it went really better than what  

i was expecting everyone was super nice coupon is  quite a nice city so yeah like it was a bit long  

and not the more fun part but it was definitely  better than what we were thinking it was just  

the anchorage really everything else was actually  cool it was just the anchorage and it's you know  

if you're sailing and it's bad weather it's not  that comfortable either but at least you sort of  

got a goal you know you're going somewhere and  it's going to improve and you know you're going to  

get there whereas it it's just like eight days of  quarantine you're not moving you're at an anchor  

and it's just up and down and rolling and just  you know hard to get food when you're at anchor  

is not that cool and then another day oh the test  results coming tomorrow okay cool so one more day  

then the next day oh no it's the next day and then  oh it's the weekend now so it'll be monday and  

then monday you hope to get it at seven o'clock in  the morning but it comes at three in the afternoon  

and then it's too late to check in with customs  so it's next day you should say ah but anyway we  

got through it and uh yeah yeah the only thing  it's like when you are waiting like this and  

it's not really comfortable even if we are super  comfortable in the boat in general like you're not  

even motivated really to work or doing things  you're just waiting waiting waiting to end so  

it's not the best part in the in the travel yeah  no actually that's true i had a whole list of  

boat jobs i wanted to do during quarantine and i  changed the mainsail again like actually all these  

things but just sort of impossible because the  boat was moving too much we had about 20 knots of  

when it would start at nine o'clock in the morning  every day and uh just i got a few boat jobs  

done like important ones but also a lot we just  couldn't do so but whatever you know it's all it's  

we've got a super super tough life you all should  feel so sorry for us but anyway so we've pulled  

up the anchor this morning and we're off to roti  yes a tiny little island the most southerly part  

of indonesia pretty close to australia well about  500 miles from darwin um and yeah apparently it's  

a you know surfers will know it but uh not  many cruises go there oh yeah anyway enjoy  

this video there's a bit of a long uh intro  but uh yeah we're so stoked to be back into  

cruising again done with all the red tape and  bureaucracy for a little while now all right enjoy

so the wind started gusting up over 27 28  knots so i decided to put in a second reef  

i thought i'd walk you through quickly how  i do that on shahelian so you can see first  

i release the main sheet here and then pull up  the top and left lift the boom up a little bit  

and then pull the second reef line there and  undo the main halyard and then just slowly  

lower the mainsail at the same time pulling  in the reefing line the second reefing line  

it's a selden single line roofing  system so it all gets done here

when it's all pretty much right down i put the  

second reefing line on the winch and tension it  up make sure it's tight on the front and the back

lock the clutch and then put the main  heliad back on the winch and pull the  

mainsail back up until it's tensioned and  then we're technically uh sailing again but

next i'll drop the topping lift  and tension the mainsheet pull the  

boom down again and as you can see  streamers are all flying and we're  

flying along about uh nine knots at this  stage actually we were just howling along and  

marie was getting a bit wet there sitting on that  side better yeah i'd love to see the boat flying

so good

we're just standing between this rotate on  the on the port side this little island i'm  

not sure what it's called over here it's a pretty  narrow channel with all the reef and stuff but um  

yeah we're sailing through it pretty much  just on 30 degrees though like hard on the  

wind so the boats sort of stalling  a bit sometimes and then it'll drop  

off speed up again so we're sort of zigzagging a  little bit but i don't want to turn the engine on

so

what are you doing i'm explaining to your veteran  then he just lost your phone and you're gonna  

be naturally able to answer to them for a while  that's a bit mean you're playing on your iphone  

i'm not playing it's pretty pretty cool  that you've got an iphone i'm sorry for you  

yeah i can smile again now but i was a bit angry  for a while uh yeah trying to do something on  

deck and i'd just been had my iphone in my shirt  pocket listening to a podcast and bend over and  

iphone 11 pro in the water with the fish so  yeah i was a bit upset probably could hear my uh  

swearing backward maybe i  don't know yeah it's like  

it's crazy these days like you just who would walk  around with a thousand bucks in cash just hanging  

in their pocket just ready to go in the wind you  know and it's i mean the money is one thing but  

yeah like how do i you know i literally can't log  on to my bank now until i get another phone like  

if google notices that i've changed location  asked me to you know uh verify my account  

i can't do that now because my phone's not  here and then i won't be uploading videos  

which mean i you know i'm not earning any money  and honey what's not on your phone these days  

i mean at least i didn't lose it and someone can  crack it and you know steal everything it's safely  

at the bottom of the ocean but it's crazy we just  carry this little device around in our whole lives  

sort of you know i'd already deleted facebook of  it so i was spending less time on my phone in the  

last few weeks and that's you know something i'll  stick with obviously now i won't spend any time on  

a phone yeah it was like you know i downloaded  gigabytes and gigabytes of satellite imagery  

for you know the future for the rest of the season  where we're going um you know navigation stuff uh  

yeah i don't know like whatsapp groups and  all this sort of stuff you know it's like  

just gone in an instant in a way now that  i'm over it it makes me feel a bit freer  

but you know you do need all that stuff  well we sort of need all that stuff and  

it's crazy just like in an instant yeah i  just know that if i get another phone it's  

going to take me two days to sort all that out and  verify you know it's like a lost part of me right  

come on don't say that you don't have a chip in  your brain no i don't have a soul it's all in  

my phone and i'm it's gone now like i have to  prove to the world that i am actually a being

so we're anchored up in nimbrala  in uh southwest roti island

i always leave a note with my name on it  and my phone number on the door just in case  

i don't know if something would happen the  boat would start dragging or who knows you  

know just so that someone would know who it  is and to call me and say there's a problem so  

yeah that's always a good tip for you fellas out  there leave your name and your number on your boat

adventure time

those of you who remember last year when i was  i don't know we were in florida somewhere and i  

got an infection my eye i think i've got the same  thing again it's actually a form of herpes it's  

like like a cold sore on your lip or whatever  but i get it on on my right eye on the freaking  

eyeball and it's just uh it's painful it caused me  a little headache and then my eye gets blurry and  

if you don't do it if you don't treat it you  know it can be pretty bad for your vision and  

that's my photograph eye and so yeah dumb dumb  dumb can't get it here we looked yesterday in  

the local little sort of hospital it's not really  a hospital it's very remote down here they don't  

even have a market or shops or anything and uh  no go here for the tablets i need so stupidly  

i'm probably gonna have to go back to kupang uh  to get this medicine and that was really like  

a bit of a battle i don't want to go back  there like a mental battle with me like ah  

we just spent time there and i don't want  to go back but i have to fix this because i  

don't feel good and it's not good for  to leave it too long here this this boat  

here that's just up on the beach you're sort of  pretty interesting to see how they build stuff  

like look at the look at the rudder system  it's just a bunch of few pieces of wood sort of  

screwed onto this thing and it's tied together  with ropes and super sketchy look at all this  

wobbling and then it's got these two ropes going  through up to the front and a steering wheel but  

and the whole boat is just all like nailed  together pieces of wood but you have 10 guys  

on it going out 20 miles into the ocean for two  days at a time fishing and yeah they're all good  

no epirb no gps nothing and us sailors get all  like stressed out when the paint's starting to  

you know chip off on one place you're like  oh i need to haul out and go and fix that and  

these guys have got a rudder that's just  a couple of bits of wood now together so  

pretty interesting their risk our risk reward is  a bit different than ours good morning everyone  

so i just dropped vernon on land to go to kupang  and i am for the first time alone on shigellian  

that's a bit weird to be honest like i'm feeling  a little bit nervous even if there's no really  

reason for but you know this is vernon berg  and when we are living together that's always  

the one like oh remind me like you did that  but you can do better or be careful of this  

it's gonna be not good if you are less energy  and you let this like that and now i have  

to think about all these things by myself but  that's good that's good that's good experience  

and i'm gonna probably have my first night  alone on shielding but yeah it's gonna be cute  

so you know it's time for breakfast for me um  i'm gonna have some fresh bread then a friend  

of us is doing in rote with some hazelnuts in  i can't wait to try it some homemade papaya jam  

green tea and i would like to show you something  will put a little bit of luxury in our life  

science one or two weeks we found this uh little  smoothie maker but it has no wire just working  

with battery and we can plug it in usb so it's  super good to charge it with 12 volts and we  

can do some smoothie every morning or even  some sauce with some chilis and stuff like  

that and it's really really a big upgrade for  me in the breakfast i'm loving it it's ready

super good mango coconut dragon fruit and  banana i'm loving it getting on the plane

a little propeller plane to kupang today

all right so i'm in kupang now it's about eight  o'clock in the morning uh this was all a bit of  

a rush trip and uh what i forgot was that yeah  like i said i lost my nice new iphone overboard  

and uh sort of i don't know it's just an ongoing  thing lost all my contacts so all the friends i'd  

made and all the you know helpful people and  kupang that we were here last week all the you  

know whatsapp messages and all that's all gone  so i got here to kupang thinking i'll just call  

natan or call lee and you know they'll just rent  me their motorbike for the day i got here and uh  

yeah i don't have their contacts don't know  anybody else so i'm just sort of walking around  

asking people if i can rent their motorbikes and  i don't have anywhere to stay tonight but that's  

not really a problem i'll just go to a hotel but  yeah i gotta find some transport because every you  

can't walk around here i'll be walking around  for like an hour now i can't find a motorbike  

i guess i sort of took it for granted but  uh never really had this problem before  

normally if you rock up at the beach or just  on a main road and ask somebody and if they  

don't have a bike they just call a friend  who's got a bike and they're happy to make a  

you know ten bucks or whatever yeah i've asked  like four or five people like scratch their heads  

and they don't know of anybody and maybe this  is as short as your motorbikes here although  

you wouldn't know it looking at the roads there's  a million people but yeah it's all good it's good  

to get a bit of a walk and it's starting to get  hot though now so hopefully i'll find one soon

so as you can see the boat is quite  messy so i just finished my lunch now  

and before starting to work on my podcast and  staying in front of my computer i'm gonna just  

enjoy this time that i am alone to clean it's not  like it's not possible to doing it when we are  

too but you know it's a it's a small space and if  you have someone in the way especially like vernon  

is a big one like it's a bit complicated you have  to ask him to move and change all the things and  

maybe he's working and he needs something that i  need to remove so yeah as i am alone it's going to  

be the perfect moment to put everything clean  put all our fabrics and stuff outside to take  

a little bit of fresh air and yeah just trying to  have a more clean space to live as you can see um  

i'm liking to make the couch quite comfortable  and it can be a little bit futile for some of you  

the way i'm taking care of this couch but you know  the first year last year i was feeling really at  

vernon's boat and it was not really my home  and now it's more than one year than we are  

living in and i like to have something a  little bit at my taste and yeah you know  

it's a weird thing with the boat you can  leave the best moments in and the worst too  

like in the same space you could have like a super  rough sea and feeling sick and hating this place  

or you can be in the more beautiful anchorage  ever and feeling in paradise inside the same space  

so for me it's important to have some staff  who make it cozy and help me to forget all  

the bad moments i had sometimes in shielding  um yeah i quite like to to have something then  

it feels home okay i'm mobile now got my motorbike  around here you can easily find it's called a  

gojek it's just a guy who owns a motorbike and  he'll ride you around all day go where you want  

and it's pretty cheap actually but i just really  prefer to have my own motorbike and then just be  

able to go anywhere and stop whenever i want  and not have to give directions a lot of the  

time i'm just winging a nice drive around then see  a shop oh i'm going to stop here and if you have  

to tell someone where you want to go then i can't  really do that because i don't know where to go

so we are in the middle of afternoon  now and um because it's cloudy and uh  

enough windy to be quite a good temperature um  i'm gonna do a surprise to vernon um i'm gonna  

oil the wood on the boat he's always asking to me  to doing it and i was quite lazy this last week  

so maybe most of not doing it so yeah i'm gonna  enjoy this good weather to give a little bit of  

oil of all this stick on the boat this is the end  of the day i just say goodbye to the sun so now  

it's time to dinner i think i'm gonna do a fish  soup because vernon doesn't like this small fish  

in general as you saw last week with the anchovies  also with sardines and olive things and i still  

have some sardines in the freezer so i think  i'm gonna enjoy my time alone to do my fish suit

so now my dinner is ready i'm super happy  i would love to share the smell with you um  

it's really like homemade recipe but it smells  a little bit like buja best the french from  

marseille soup fish i really love that and i  have some bread some garlic to put on the bread  

so it's going to be just amazing dinner yo all  right i just checked out of the hotel i'm gonna  

head down and drop my motorbike off and then get  a lift back to the airport and fly back to other

second umbrella island time again it's beautiful  

i already feel more relaxed who's this beautiful  person hello hello how are you you miss me yeah

okay so yeah end of a another video that was a  pretty long one probably our longest one yet maybe  

but um yeah don't blame us last time we did a long  video i asked and you guys all told me the longer  

the better so here you go it's been a long one  because we're nearly live now we could actually  

give you the results of the inofficial  anchovies uh bacon poll and it turns out  

it was pretty even on instagram marie did a  poll and i was way ahead there well bacon was  

way ahead i can't take credit for bacon it is  what it is and uh on youtube and the comments  

i think it was pretty even but we didn't actually  count no i yeah yeah yeah so she counted so  

in the end we'll make a compromise and say uh it  was pretty even but yeah but we all know we all  

know who the real winner is but yeah pizza  pizza is always the winner so it's all good  

um like to thank you patrons two or three new  ones this month actually very very nice to see  

you guys are willing to support the hard work  and uh you know editing and all that sort of  

stuff we do it is you know pretty much half  of our week to be honest so um yeah it's it's  

awesome you guys see the value in that and  want to keep us making these videos for you  

and yeah your parents are super stoked always to  see what you're up to yes see that yeah my mum too  

i sort of feel like i don't need to call any  of my family because they know what we're up to  

all the time anyway so sorry you guys but  um probably make more of an effort but  

i've got a phone anymore so i can't call anyone  anyway all right well um yeah we're here beautiful  

nambrala roti island right behind us and uh as  i said we're live this is saturday afternoon so  

in 24 hours this video will be out and uh next  week we'll be doing some awesome thing probably  

fixing the dinghy actually i think that's going to  be a big part of next week's video and maybe some  

q a there's been quite a few um questions come  in i've put in a folder and now it's time to get  

some of them answered so uh yeah that'll be next  week's video alright see you guys then bye-bye