Saturday 3rd to Thursday 8th August It was a 220 mile sail from Banda to the next rally venue, Tifu, a village on the south coast of Buru Island. We set off in the early morning with Hakuna Matata and had a tremendous sail, on a reach with both

Sunday 28th July to Sunday 4th August We up anchored and left Debut at 7am in a procession of eight rally boats all on the look out for buoys and fishing nets in which they might get entangled. We managed to weave our way past the numerous FADs (fish aggregating

Sunday 21st to Sunday 28th July 2019   Debut (pronounced D’boot) is a small fishing village with a sheltered bay large enough to fit in the 60+ boats of the Wonderful Sail to Indonesia rally. Officials from customs, immigration and health come to Debut from the main town of Tual

Tuesday 16th to Sunday 21st July 2019     We headed off from Thursday Island at 9am in a group of 16 yachts including Swedish friends Ingvar & Tuija on Hakuna Matata which, at 37 foot, is a similar size to Vega. We were soon left behind by the larger