Sailing north up the west coast of Lombok. We'd had a great time down south but our time had come to an end and we needed to get north to the Gili's. The day started out slow but the wind slowly increased and it ended up being a fun sail, we even had a little wipe-out while I was filming with the drone.
Marie wasn't in the best mood as our lives will shortly be changing.
Enjoi!

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what's up youtube friends good to have

you along wherever you are in the world

join us this week as we sail up the west

coast of lombok and we let you in on

some news of our

upcoming future enjoy

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good morning everyone welcome to another

episode of learning by doing

right now we're anchored close to this

tiny little speck of land called gilly

ketus this one here right behind me

yeah we came in here last night and as

you can see from these drone shots

pretty epic had a nice sunset and the

island looks pretty cool

we're uh on our way up to the north

gillies gili aya

gili meno and gili throwing and

from the south gillies that's where we

are now so we're gonna sail up there

today

it's only about 26 miles something like

that

it'll be downwind probably not much wind

so we'll probably just be ghosting along

so we'll try and sail away even if we go

a bit slow

we've actually got a roast in the oven

we've put a chicken

roast in with vegetables pumpkin

potatoes uh

carrots garlics onions things like that

and that'll be roasting away slowly

while we're sailing

hopefully we'll have the roast dinner

with a couple of beers when we arrive

sunset

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well as you can see we're just drifting

along wing on wing

four knots we've only got six knots of

wind so

i mean there's six knots of apparent

wind so it's probably eight knots of

true wind

yeah it's all right we're um gonna get

there eventually

it's about yeah 20 something miles to go

but we've got the rest of the day

and it's definitely preferable to having

the engine on and

noise and smell generally if the boat

speed goes under three knots

i'll put the engine on that's sort of my

my limit of patience

doesn't happen that often in this boat

we can normally get over two and a half

knots

and if it stays like this i can also put

the spinnaker up we'll probably get

another

a knot and a half with that let's see

you can smell the uh chicken how's the

chicken doing

it's not ready it starts to be a little

bit golden

but thinking it's more

but it's a sauna inside with the human

on

i don't know if it's because it's rainy

season but it's super hot

and heavy weather all the time and i was

not really motivated to cook and

stay inside with this heat

inside

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a fancy cockpit knife goes in here

good for opening kalapana

beautiful super sweet one

it's hot

it's right it's too hot what do you

think

it's super sweet it's sweet but the

water is hot

she's super grumpy today i don't know

why

monday

what happened

stop really

i think i know the reason it's because

this is our last week sailing

today is monday and on sunday

we haul the boat out um

it'd be the first time in three years

that i've hauled out it definitely needs

it

but it looks like we're going back to

europe

for a few months we haven't booked any

tickets yet because europe is a bit of a

show at the moment

we're hoping the next couple of weeks

things will

pan out that um i've been offered

another contract by volcom

marie's looking for a job right now but

she really wants to see her family and

um

yeah the vulcan contract is pretty it's

pretty lucrative

and yeah you patrons and you

people that have been supporting us it's

been been amazing and it's really really

helped us out this season and in

indonesia it's actually enough for our

daily

needs fuel and food and whatnot

but in terms of a refit for the boat and

you know repainting and all a new

mainsail and

hauling out and all that sort of stuff

i've still got to go and earn my own

money which is fine and which is good

and uh it seems like it's going to be

possible

with vulcan offering this contract it

might not be as good as always with

you know covert still being around but

we'll work that out

and uh come back

to the boat with some money in the bank

again

but anyway i think that's what's uh on

marie's mind

today is uh

yeah the uncertainty going back you know

we've been pretty free here we don't

have to wear masks we don't really even

know coverts

a thing unless we go online or if we go

to one of the bigger towns but in

all the small towns and islands around

here it's not affecting anybody and no

one really knows about it even you know

and we're going to go back to europe and

there's

you know everyone's taking sides it's

either for or against believe or not

believe

mascot not mass vaccination and it's

just

uh you know people losing friends and

forming

different relationships based on their

belief on

covert and we haven't had that here so

it will be pretty scary getting thrust

back into that

that atmosphere which which you're all

probably living in right now but

we haven't had to have that so yeah it's

a bit of a concern

but um yeah it is what it is and i'm

sure we'll figure it out

is it right yeah it's good

yeah friends sucks i don't want to be

let down

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along the west coast of lombok there's

quite a few

big resort sort of towns or like big

big resorts that have been built into

the side of the hills

there's one sort of famous town called

sengigi that's got a

fair few big well-known resorts in it

but in general lombok has

just got tourism and small groups and in

between it's very poor

small little local villages and really

no western influence at all

it's a muslim completely muslim

in lombok as opposed to across the

strait bali

and so yeah very very different culture

here than in bali

and yeah the tourism as well the people

probably during covert haven't been as

affected because they're mostly all

farmers here

there's not that many involved in the

tourism industry

as opposed to barley west you know

mostly all tourism there

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so

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ah

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that was a stressful flight first

sailing video

with this little mavic air

yeah you saw a boat got overpowered and

rounded up completely

had to like drop the controller and get

the boat back under control

yeah a gust of wind came in a wave cave

at the same time and just

flicked the boat right around

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yes

well we're nearly back in gilead

pretty pretty okay so started off pretty

light winds

and then uh it's been a road it's been

downwind the whole way wing on wing for

a while and then

yeah just just cruising along i think

the current's been with us because we've

been

doing sort of sevens eights without

really feeling like it

no sometimes you're ripping through the

water and it really feels like you're

going fast and you look you look at the

speed you're doing four knots and

other times like today you sort of feels

like you're not really going fast and

then

you think you're doing four knots you

look at the thing and doing eight knots

so

current weather is always good though

definitely makes for a smoother ride

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all right we're here in gili air now

just the north gillies

the boat's on a mooring pretty windy out

here oh look there's a guy just come out

in this

coat surf board thing

anyway we're having our roast

chicken dinner now on the beach

okay i hope you enjoyed that video it's

probably pretty windy now but uh

yeah pretty cool day we had possibly our

last sale

maybe not you never know thanks again

patrons you guys are awesome

a couple of new ones you know who you

are thank you very much i've got you

listed here at the end

bedrooms so good see you next week

we'll be hauling out i think the next

video will be our haul out video

it's going to take place at night and

this place has never done a haul out at

night

um i'll tell you more about that next

time but it's probably going to be

pretty interesting we'll see how that

goes

bye