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Sam Holmes Sailing
@samholmessailing · 285K subscribers
Crossing oceans in questionable sailing vessels If you’re interested in contributing to the next adventure, links for patreon, paypal and venmo are below: https://www.patreon.com/samholmes https://www.paypal.me/soarsail https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2372932546330624672— in their own words
14ports charted
2,332nm on the chart
20episodes
The vessel Catamaran
Logbook 20
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Catamaran vs monohull after 1.5yrs on catamaran
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Hundreds of miles of rough sailing only to be turned away from our dream destination
Wayag Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Our journey begins with a quick scuba dive to untangle a fouled anchor. Then we set out on a rough multi day upwind passage with a lot of tacking against wind and currents.
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Making big miles offshore sailing through Indonesia
Molucca Sea Indonesia
We depart Manado to scuba dive the pristine Indonesian reefs of the outer islands. Ann-Elin eats the world’s smallest banana. A boat ties up and its crew let themselves onboard.
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Orca sighting! we repair one daggerboard only to break another one
Manado North Sulawesi, Indonesia
We depart Maratua Indonesia for a long and slow 500 mile passage across the Celebes Sea to Manado Indonesia. During the long glass calm periods I do some work on our engines and damaged dagger boards.
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Sailing to Maratua, a rarely visited Indonesian island
Maratua East Kalimantan, Indonesia
We depart Nunucan for Maratua, a remote Indonesian island in the Celebes Sea. I navigate through miles of netting and some choppy seas and currents.
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We hit a log sailing by strange Indonesian sea platforms
Semporna Sabah, Malaysia
While sailing to Indonesia we hit a log at 8kts that damages our dagger board then get entangled in a fishing net. We encounter strange wooden towers in the middle of the sea. Sailing and snorkeling the marine parks of Semporna.
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Replacing a window while sailing through pirate waters and wildlife of Borneo
We navigate through the pirate zone around North East Borneo, replace a window while sailing, tackle some boat projects and 3d printing, and take a trip inland to see the wildlife.
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Sailing to Semporna and the most Garbage I’ve ever seen in the water
Semporna Sabah, Malaysia
Sailing from Sandakan to Semporna and snorkeling the reefs.
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Kota Kinabalu Bound: Sailing, Survivor Island, Squalls, and Bugs, 3d printing
Survivor Island Sabah, Malaysia
We depart Brunei and sail towards Kota Kinabalu. Along the way we stop by the original survivor island and do some exploring and snorkeling.
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Sailing to Brunei, an unusual country
Sailing to Brunei on the Island of Borneo. Interesting water color transitions and oil fields. Night time squalls . Garlic liquor. A backwards parasailor.
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Kuching to Miri
Miri Sarawak, Malaysia
We sail through fields of oil rigs in the south chine sea up the coast of borneo to Miri. I finally start tackleing the soft spots in the dock. We explore the Niah caves.
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Becalmed & our engines keep breaking on 7 day passage to Borneo
Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia
We sail from the Anambas to Kuching on Borneo. We struggle with being becalmed and engines that keep breaking. In Kuching we see Orangutans and learn about Culture.
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Indonesia's Most Remote Archipelago
Anambas Archipelago Riau, Indonesia
Sailing to the offshore Anambas Archipelago of Indonesia. Sailing to many of the islands and scuba diving. Struggling with anchor and engine issues and trying interesting new foods in town.
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The Exce1sior 3.3m carbon fiber dinghy
We test and compare our experiences with our new Exce1sior 3.3m dinghy with our old Aluminum bottom RIB. We were ultimately won over by the good looks, increased performance, storage space and hull build quality.
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Dodging Supertankers and Finding Paradise on a Malaysian Island
Tioman Island Pahang, Malaysia
We depart Puteri Harbor and sail around Singapore through one of the busiest straits in the world. conditions are mostly calm with strong currents and a lot of large ships.
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A great catamaran sunshade solution
Infomercial for our new sunshade from @sunriseyachtproducts This doubled our usable outside space on our catamaran during the day.
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Sailing busy part of the Malacca Strait to Singapore
We sail 5 days south from Port Klang. Down the busy Malacca strait. We try a Swedish banana curry pizza. We visit a mangrove island and see monkeys, wild boars, and giant monitor lizards.
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7 Days Sailing Down The Malacca Strait
Kuala Lumpur Selangor, Malaysia
Sailing down the Malacca Strait we visit Penang and Kuala Lumpur via port klang. Along the way we revive our window resealing project and have an unfortunate problem with the port engine.
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The huge number of projects it takes to maintain a 43ft Catamaran
The huge number of projects it takes to maintain a 43ft Catamaran Products in this video
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Ports on the chart 14
- LangkawiKedah, Malaysia
- Kuala LumpurSelangor, Malaysia
- Singapore
- Tioman IslandPahang, Malaysia
- Anambas ArchipelagoRiau, Indonesia
- KuchingSarawak, Malaysia
- MiriSarawak, Malaysia
- Brunei
- Survivor IslandSabah, Malaysia
- SempornaSabah, Malaysia
- MaratuaEast Kalimantan, Indonesia
- ManadoNorth Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Molucca SeaIndonesia
- WayagRaja Ampat, Indonesia
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