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jolly good morning to you all it's quite

cloudy here but it's a beautiful wind

blowing and under sail leaving a fellow

back here I sailed up to dibela

yesterday from me tea got some fresh

vegetables and fruit and stuff like that

and yeah throw up the sail pull up the

anchor and had a bit of a tight fit to

get out of the end of the Anchorage but

now I'm on oh yeah 60 degrees nearly a

beam reach it's going past the last

marker here and now we're gonna turn

north shortly had pretty much downwind

about 35 miles up to Morotai should be

good there's a lot of reefs and stuff

along the way so I'll be zigzagging but

with the wind directly behind me it's

sort of good anyway not about to keep on

a bit of a bit of angle to the wind

instead of running straight downwind and

having to pull things out and stuff yeah

all good I'm going to concentrate on

these reefs for a minute I'll get back

to you soon

yep we've got it under control now wing

on wing pretty much dead downwind

relatively close to silent behind me but

it doesn't really have fringing reef and

there's still a few more islands to

zigzag through but we're nearly out into

the de crossing between halmahera and

more attire now and then it should be

about 20 miles of no reefs to watch out

for hopefully the wind keeps up it seems

to be a bit fluky at the moment we had

two weeks of real strong southerly x'

which is saw in a couple of other videos

getting up to Y a get across to here and

everything but since about three four

days now it's all calmed down again we

just get more um you know a couple of

hours of wind in the morning and then

get all day and then picks up a bit in

the evening and then dead all night

which is sort of the wrong way around

for me I want wind at night so can get

cool breeze to sleep and when through

the middle of the day when it's the

hottest but yeah it's not how it works

okay I'll check back in soon it might be

a bit of a boring day today I don't

really know what to do this video about

to be honest I've normally got a theme

you know climbing the do kono or looking

at the locals making the coconut work

and Metty or you know beautiful wag and

this I don't really know what today is

going to bring big news bad news I'm

still confused there was a little bit of

a rhyme

I managed somehow to lose my new drone

yesterday I feel like a complete idiot

but I don't think it was my fault to be

honest I flew that drones three or four

times and it seemed to work fine but on

this occasion it just I think at least

one of the engines may be to quit and it

just flipped over on its head and hit

the ocean gone so that one yeah after

ten years of flying drones and not

losing a single one I lost two in a

month now pretty expensive hobby if I

keep going at that right and I can't get

another one now because you can't get

them here and I don't have any more

visitors coming so you might have to do

without drone footage

for the next few videos which will be a

big loss because it's just so much nicer

with drone footage imagine the decoder

video without drone footage it would

have just been boring anyway I'll just

muck on through okay so we are sailing

we are sailing along nicely everything's

calm down we're outside the islands now

in the channel the winds a bit more

structured I'd say just six knots ten

knots of wind just slightly after the

beam reach so pretty much perfect could

be going a bit faster but this is fine

actually would be perfect weather for

the sub for the spinnaker today there's

no squalls on the horizon and we'd be

screaming along with that but I can't be

buggered to be honest I haven't put it

up once this season yet but there will

come a time we only have 15 miles to go

so it'll only be yeah a couple of hours

two and a half hours but I think I'm

going to put out the fishing lines

I've still got fish in the freezer but

you know there's always that thought

that we might catch something awesome

probably won't catch anything at all but

give it a try this is the one that's

been catching a few fish lately it's

actually just the homemade job and I

probably need to redo it but it was just

an octopus with a hook and it had a lot

of these yeah octopus tentacles but they

got bitten off quite a different fish so

I made up my own ones out of this rolled

oats packet they don't last quite as

long and yeah I caught a few fish on the

way over here which is sore in their

passage video to tobelo and so I need to

make a new one but I did save a couple

of pieces from the last rolled oats

packet so my corner but I'll throw this

out man we'll see here we go just a hand

line

I'm pretty terrible at fishing to be

honest I don't really enjoy it that's

the thing I enjoy eating fish but yeah I

don't really find it much pleasure and

just trolling the line along and I find

even less pleasure in just dropping a

line over the side when you're at anchor

I find that just to be the most boring

thing in the world but I love

spearfishing there's a lot of it's a bit

of hunting and a lot more skill involved

with that than just you know just buying

your favorite lure and tearing it behind

and hoping hoping if something hits it

but this camera by the way is a little

robot it's no there's not a little

person sitting down there I'm I'm by

myself here yeah let me show it to you

so this is oz bot see when I move it

follows me it's a new camera just came

out I think it hasn't actually reached

the market yet a few early receivers got

it now I've had it for two months now

and I've used it in a few videos in a

couple of you guys have commented on it

which is pretty cool because they just

you know no one noticed it really but

it's pretty cool to have on the boat it

it zooms automatically zooms and follows

me around and it's on a sonic gimbal so

it um you know it's so it's stable it's

pretty cool because it sort of can

follow me around the boat wherever I'm

going did not see what I'm doing sort of

keeps a track of me it's like every

little friend

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it's my favorite place to sit you know

but on jelly sandwiches

gotta stay here for a while enjoy the

view

I think the wind has just shifted a bit

I need to go and trim the head sail a

little bit but I'll give it a few more

minutes it might might just change back

the sound up here is great just the way

we're cutting through the water steps

the waves it's amazing so nice up here

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approaching de Reuben now that's the

southernmost town on the island of Mora

tie there's some little islands

appearing getting back into the reefs in

little areas but still sailing we're on

in five knots it's a bit of a current

against it's actually that - not current

but yep coming in this sort of a ship

coming out I should show you this one

it's quite a fancy looking ship it

doesn't look like in a trading ship from

here

but it's quite quite classic here he was

on a different course and he just he

just folded course and it's just

crossing over in front of me like you

know he's in the wrong even if I wasn't

sailing just as a boat but I've heard

that quite a few times bigger boats they

I mean they always have captains but I

don't think they go to the same shipping

school they don't know the rules in the

right of way like if I don't adjust

course we would hit this guy and I was

in the right lane and I'm under sail and

it's not a you know it's just a pleasure

craft or a small ferry but they don't

see it that way so you really got to be

careful with you can't trust that they

know the rules here because they're not

going to get out of the way I had one

dive boat over and over and raise your

arm pup they just kept coming they just

kept coming and there was three guys

watching me and they just kept coming

and if I hadn't had done a sharp tack in

the end they would have just hit me and

I waved and shouted and they just wave

back like saying hello just funny for

them yeah you can't trust you can't

trust it the people here know the rules

and the other thing is that seems like

they want to get close to to see your

sailing or whatever it is but it's not

cool at all it's not cool

ya see and now that he crossed in front

of me he's going to cross back behind me

again so basically us did a loop around

me like going on the wrong side of me

confusing what any sailor would normally

think of boats gonna do you know who's

going to cross back behind me classic

you wouldn't wanna hit that guy here's

some other guys you got to watch you up

for I just tied up to a little mooring

boy here which is cool it's just a bit

tough at night you don't see them but

I'm doing the day it's fine just have to

keep your eyes open which is normal yeah

we're arriving in Dubai soon about five

minutes ago I was just about to pull the

sails down turn the engine on because

we're only doing two knots we out of out

of wind but just picked up again

that doing six nuts again perfectly calm

like in a lake and yeah nice way to

arrive just a couple more little reefs

after zigzag through and then I'll pull

up here for the night

anchor I got no idea what this towns

like I think it's pretty small and

pretty you know pretty dusty there might

not be much here but we'll see who knows

anyway at least we've got some wind to

finish this little day's journey off you

looking forward to checking this place

out okay we're getting close now time to

prepare for arrival

I'll get the fishing lines install that

away clean up everything fill the jib up

and turn it to the one get the mainsail

down and then we should be good to find

a spot to anchor don't try and make

y'all comfortable

for the record you in truck rolled and

stopped with you for the Brecon lab on

me going on away for the record ain't

wrong link notes on relations

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get out pricing your snake guys with

dates for your children so ice to yours

hey I'm gonna

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I still want to add not to coast

water running don't try and make you a

nice rock rolling stopping for a run lab

on me going on way a trial a no china

wish this looks like as good a place as

any

we're in ten meters of water it's low

tide right now so should be safe think

I'll put down the anchor right here

maybe if it gets too noisy some of these

towns with the the Muslim towns they

they get a bit over the top sometimes

with the church music so I might move

but I think it's only 20 meters out

there so I can move it further away if

it gets too loud

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reckon I still count wince when they

take advantage of 20 meters let that

settle for a second and then let out a

couple more up to 10 meters each

think of sandy bottom here so it should

be safe yes further the anchor well

smells of Earth yeah Egyptian night

workers between the leg spots

I was anchored for two weeks outside

Metis cottage and I guess there was a

lot of eggs from different sorts of sea

animals that attach themself to the

change and now they've been in there the

whole day cooking hot and it is a stench

coming out of there I'll throw some

buckets of water down there now clean it

out a little bit hello lovely people

this is another episode done I have

literally just finished with the editing

I'll put in this last clip now after

this you'll see it's been a very much

more simple video than the last three

have been and I thought it was good to

do that the last three were quite

intensive a lot of film clips and a lot

of editing a lot of adventure stuff but

not much sailing and to be honest a lot

of work in it this this one here is much

more simple one it was just a lot of

dialogue and talking and I could just

sort of put them all together sorry if

you think that's a lot of effort on my

part I just need to do that every now

and again otherwise I'm sitting here

instead of being outside where I want to

be but anyway I hope you don't find this

one too boring it's just a little bit of

a look into my life sailing across the

bay talking bit of about what I

do sitting on the paper by myself all

day

it's fina cool so far this season I've

actually had people with me pretty much

the whole season so this is nearly the

first time I'm alone Toby left

about a week ago he stayed nearly five

weeks and it was great to have him on

board but um yeah I'm looking forward to

sparing this next few Wow next couple of

months now alone actually exploring

around I'll take you with me on that I

don't have any plans actually what I'm

going to film for the next times this is

the last video you know I'm just up to

date no no but I'm sure I'll stumble

across some cool things to do I always

seem to seem to manage to do that just

talking some locals necessarily you

should check out this well you should go

there or whatever so I'll figure it out

I don't have a drone and I won't for the

next foreseeable future until I go back

to Europe so yeah it'll be just me with

no plan and no drone but I'm sure I'll

bug you something up that you guys will

find interesting yeah thanks again my

patrons and all new ones that came

onboard thank you obviously just to all

you viewers that are watching and

commenting liking it please consider

sharing this video or other ones you've

watched with any friends that you think

might be interested in this and that

helps me a lot

and ya know I will just continue making

these videos and you see here we go I've

still got a couple of months on the boat

before I head back to winter but um I'm

loving it loving life okay thanks very

much and see you two weeks