Tuesday 20th to Sunday 25th August   Pasar Wajo on the island of Buton was the next official rally stop, the main attraction for me being the Colossal Dance Festival with 5,000 dancers to take place on the final day here. Before that there were three days of activities organised

Thursday 8th to Tuesday 20th August   We left Tifu soon after noon with Hakuna Matata for the 200 mile sail southwest to Wakatobi, our route crossing the shipping lanes for ships and tankers sailing between Australia and China. On the first night we were on a near collision course

  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

Friday 28th June to Tuesday 16th July 2019 This is the Cape York Peninsula at the very north of eastern Australia, some of it national park and Aboriginal land, with tropical rainforest, grasslands, savannahs, winding rivers and mangrove swamps. 4WD tourists travel here along the dirt tracks which crisscross the

We are in Indonesia now but here is a short post on our two weeks in Cairns…. Thursday 13th to Friday 28th June 2019 In Cairns the locals were all moaning about the weather. How unseasonably cold it was, how windy, how all this rain was unusual for Queensland at

Sunday 2nd to Thursday 13th June 2019   After three nights in the marina at Airlie Beach we headed north again on a cold, overcast day for the 120 mile, overnight sail to Magnetic Island. Initially it was a very leisurely, relaxing sail under just the genoa in 8 to 10

Monday 20th May to Sunday June 2nd   On the Monday things were still not looking too good weather-wise but we were determined to head off. Liz, one of the marina staff, helped us to leave the pontoon without causing any damage and we had a rather bumpy 25 mile