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When first I came to the largest Islamic country in the world, Indonesia, we arrived in the beginning of Ramadan. I had no understanding of this sacred time or how it was observed. Soon I learned that the faithful fast during daylight hours. I was to l…

 
 
Sam has now been with Furthur for more than four months, she joins a small group of wonderful crew to do so. Sam came on a “test ride” last New Year’s for a dive trip to the Samilian Islands in Thailand. From day one I knew she was a perfec…

 
Those great lyrics to the John Cougar Melencamp song do often ring true with me. Indonesia has a complicated and often difficult yet easy to understand visa system and the rules can get murky or be very clear depending on your timing and who you tal…

 
Once again findacrew.net has brought me a marvelous new member to the crew. Hannah comes from the land of Big Ben, tea and crumpets and the Beatles, jolly old England. She comes complete with that oh so charming, heartwarming London accent and the …

Until we return Labuan Bajo
 I have discovered that the perfect time to leave a place is when you really do not want to.  Leave when at the top and not when you are eager to go. That is the case with our leaving Labuan Bajo this time. We have made so…

As a young man I was full of fantasies, the kind that dashed across the dreams of many a boy in the 1960’s; cruising the great long passages across endless seas, tropical islands with white sand, diving in warm shark filled waters, the love of beau…

My good friend Steve, who set sail recently for the great beyond, gave me an old guitar he and Lorraine had been packing about for a while and did not play. Steve loved to hear me bang out old hippy songs at our beach parties and cruiser gatherings. T…

For a while ye ol generator has been running hot, I worked on it over and over, sometimes with brief success, just enough to tease. So here I am with five of the loveliest ladies on board, the most international crew to date and a cranky gen. The i…

Life in paradise
So how do I spend my days?  I am often asked.  Cruising has been defined as working on your boat in exotic places and I do my share of that. The recent mechanical dilemma is the unexplained battery problem. I seem to be stumped as of…

Life amongst the dragons
This is my third visit to Komodo, it is clearly one of the great cruising destinations of the world. The Komodo National Park is a refuge of wildlife protected by the residents and government. It is the home of exotic animals b…