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Sailing to Malaysia and Singapore
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Sailing to Malaysia and Singapore

The blog post is in English and thereafter in Swedish. Pictures and videos at the end Blogginlägget är på engelska och därefter på svenska. Bilder och videor på slutet We really had little wind during the days we had to get to our destination. We sailed in the shallow sea between Sumatra and Borneo into the Batam archipelago towards Singapore. The area is called Sunda Shelf, which during the ...

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Kumai, Borneo
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Kumai, Borneo

Kalimantan is the name of the Indonesian part of Borneo. A strip of land on the northern side of the island belongs to Malaysia and the small kingdom of Brunei is also located here. The island is very rich in natural resources with coal deposits, and gold as well as other metals are also mined here. In addition, large palm oil plantations are spreading where there used to be rainforest. With ...

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Lombok, Bali and Jakarta
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Lombok, Bali and Jakarta

There is an ocean current called the Indonesian throughflow (ITF) that helps large amounts of warm water from the Pacific Ocean reach the colder water in the Indian Ocean. This makes the area one of the most species-rich in the world where species from both oceans meet. Because the trade winds in the northern and southern hemispheres push the ocean water in different directions, the Pacific water ...

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Flores and Komodo islands
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Flores and Komodo islands

Since we will be spending a long time in Indonesia and visiting several of the islands, we needed to know a little more about the country, which we understood has a varied and sometimes violent history. But where we have also, so far, experienced that different ethnic and religious groups have great understanding of each other and live together without major problems. Indonesia is the world' ...

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Sailing to Indonesia and Saumlaki
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Sailing to Indonesia and Saumlaki

From Thursday Island we had a slow sail across the Arafura Sea, which lies between Torres and Indonesia. The winds were weak so it took longer than expected but we were livened up by a fishing competition announced by the friends at Oatenec. We were very quick with the fishing rod and could soon look forward to having dinner on freshly caught tuna of a suitable size. Pink squid-like lures seem to ...

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Sailing to Torres Strait and Thursday Island
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Sailing to Torres Strait and Thursday Island

The crossing from Vanuatu to Thursday Island took us 12 days. The first few days we had light winds that then died out more and more and just in time for my birthday we had no wind at all. We had been motor sailing for a while but now we turned off the engine and tore up all the sails and took the opportunity to swim with a rope behind the boat. We still made about one knot of speed as we had the ...

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Vanuatu
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Vanuatu

The Vanuatu archipelago consists of 83 islands, of which approximately 65 are inhabited. The islands are believed to have been populated about 3,000 years ago by Melanesians, who are the indigenous people of the islands. The archipelago has been created over millions of years by volcanic activity and is still, geologically speaking, an active region where the Australian tectonic plate meets ...

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Fiji
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Fiji

he whole time we were preparing the boat we were on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. Fiji is a large archipelago consisting of over 300 islands, about a third of which are inhabited. About 3000 years ago, early Melanesians are believed to have populated the islands with origins in the so-called Lapita culture, from which Polynesians also originate. Geographically, New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, the S ...

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Welcome Anastacia II
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Welcome Anastacia II

It was Alan, the Canadian on Timmies Run, who had contacted us with an offer to buy his boat. The boat is a Beneteau Oceanis 461 (46 feet, 14 m) from 2000. Two feet longer than Anastacia and ten years older. It is the same boat that Alan and Christer spent a whole day in, a few months ago, trying to find the fault with the autopilot that had stopped working. Alan had originally planned to continu ...

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The quest for a new boat
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The quest for a new boat

Before leaving Niue, we searched the sailboat market and realized that French Polynesia and Tahiti probably had the largest selection at reasonable prices. So, we flew there with a stopover in Auckland, New Zealand. We wanted to be as efficient as possible and had already booked some visits and video tours in advance. During the barely two weeks we lived in Papeete, we managed to look at over 10 d ...

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