Should every sailboat have a bicycle? Maybe not if it’s a racing yacht or if your superyacht already has its own helicopter, but for cruisers, we reckon a bicycle on a sailboat does amazing things In this video (which was filmed before the lockdown and Movement Restriction Order came into effect on Borneo) we explain why having bikes on board […]

On this side of the world, they’ve been taking the coronavirus outbreak deadly seriously since it came to light. In January, Sabah banned flights from China and after a couple of weeks all Chinese tourism here finished Then the South Koreans were prevented from coming, which meant almost no tourism. But it worked and we had no coronavirus in Sabah […]

This is the first time we took our cat to a vet on Borneo, where we discovered that our beautiful Millie, who has been sailing with us for eleven years, is very ill Little did we know we were in for the long haul and for many more visits over the coming months to a total of four different vets. […]

What do you do when your visa is about to run out as countries around you are closing their borders? Liz and Jamie of Followtheboat face a dilemma… To renew a visa in Malaysia you have to do a ‘border run’, but what happens when the borders are closing? Sailing to the Philippines is no longer an option because the […]