Been a month since our last update and some miles have definitely passed under the keel. We sailed and cleared into Fiji at the small northern port of Savu Savu. Savu Savu is one of our favourite places as it’s a small town that’s off the beaten track. There’s not a lot of tourism and it remains untainted by western culture and civilisation. The locals are incredibly happy with everyone passing you in the street with a huge smile and the words Bula Bula. We spent two weeks in Savu Savu soaking up the positive energy while resting, doing laundry and gathering fresh provisions from the markets before we made our way further afield. After departing Savu Savu we sailed west 120nm to the Yasawas stopping off on Yadua Island on the way. A few weeks sailing down the Yasawas until we reached Malolo Island where we’re presently waiting out a weather window that we hope will allow us to sail 1,400nm west to Australia.

We’ve just crossed the 180th degree in longitude the exact opposite side of the world to Greenwich in the UK. Funny how the charting app we use to do our routing sees this as the end of the world! My wife’s take on it below. View quoted note →

Buying the dip and swimming with whales. How’s your day?

These are two talks that all freedom loving Bitcoiners should watch.

In 1999 I left my home country and have pretty much spent the majority of that time travelling, sailing and working all around the world. The one lesson that keeps coming back is that those that have the least in this world have the most to give. I see and experience it constantly in the poorest of countries. From a man in a dugout canoe in Indonesia giving us fresh coconuts and asking for nothing to locals in Tonga offering the fresh food that they grow these people have many lessons we in the west could learn. The joy of life doesn’t come from what you have it comes from what you give. A pic below of @Clo at the local markets here in Vava’u where you can find some of the world’s best organic and locally grown fruits and veggies.

Some pics from the one of the Pacific Oceans true gems 💎 Tonga 🇹🇴 🏝️ ⛵️🌏

@Marty Bent just listened to your latest with Matthew Mazinski and in the show notes you linked his Twitter account with no mention of his #Nostr account?? Aren’t you for freedom tech??

Don’t ask “what can #nostr do for you” ask “what can I do for #nostr” View quoted note →

Find yourself a wife that makes you a better person and all of your dreams will become reality. ❤️ View quoted note →

What’s it like living on a boat? It’s definitely not for everyone. Life here is very free but with that freedom comes a lot of compromises. For one we don’t have endless electricity or water. We have to make our own using solar panels and a water maker or desalinator. This is good as on one hand you become very aware of power usage and being efficient and this also applies for water production and usage. To save water we use some of the world’s most efficient showerheads and also have a similar attachment for the end of our taps. These fittings aerate the water and make it feel as though you’re using more water after when in fact you’re using around .625 or 2lts per minute, which compared to the normal 10lt per minute shower head save you a lot of water. These small efficiencies are what we aim for when living on a boat as it’s all about using less while trying to do more. It’s why we love #Bitcoin as it’s also about freedom and being efficient with the storage of your time and energy. It’s also about where to focus that time and energy, how to spend it and how to use it. In the end it all comes down to Proof Of Work. If you’d like to know more about the fittings we use they’re made by a company in the US called Bricor. www.bricor.com

We’ve been in Vava’u Tonga for three days now. Arriving here was amazing. There was a 95% full moon and as we sailed around the northern shore of Vava’u we spotted three whales that were about 500ft or ten boat lengths away that were swimming directly at us. I shouted to my wife to start the engine, no I yelled furl the staysail, no I yelled again just watch the whales and tell me what direction they’re heading in then one whale broached about five boat lengths away in the moonlight is was something so surreal. Frightening at first as you are worried about colliding with them then after my racing mind settled we bear’d away to head in the same direction as they were swimming minimising the chances of coming into contact with them. In the end we got the engine started and also the watermaker. The watermaker is loud and as the pump on it is high pressure it makes a lot of vibration thru the hull. This we hoped would allow them to hear us and to keep away. It’s something people don’t think about much but colliding with objects at sea happens a lot and it can be fatal to the boat especially if the boats a monohull and if it’s something hard like a shipping container. In the end we arrived safely spending the first day anchored off the customs dock cleaning the boat up from the long passage to get here. Yesterday Monday we cleared in and became legal. Over the next few weeks we’ll explore this paradise and hopefully we’ll get to swim with the humpback whales that migrate here yearly to give birth to their calves. View over Neiafu harbour below 👇 and at sunset

A post from my wife ❤️ I love seeing her on Nostr helping to create the world we want to see. View quoted note →

After seven days at sea and 1300nm of sailing we’re 60nm ENE of Vava’u Tonga. Got 20-25’s off the stern and this old girl is surfing waves like a pro at pipeline! There’s nothing like crossing oceans on a performance sailing ⛵️ boat. It’s incredibly rewarding, it’s proof of work with salt added. This is the view off the back porch!