previously on delos! we spent the day cruising around phuket with jeff, a local ex-pat who took us under his wing. brady gets pretty cozy with some monkeys, and we went to an infamous ping-pong show. and i smacked ping-pong balls out of a girls vagina. are you ready to go sailing?? yessss!!! let's get out of thailand. you guys ready to sail to the andaman islands? yeah man. what time is it? it's like 10. really? babs!
good morning! hi. are you ready to go sailing? yeah. i had weird dreams of ping-pong shows. i don't think they were dreams brady. ohhhhh. we're leaving thailand! it's strange because we all slept in. like yesterday we were like we should wake up at like 7 or 8 and then yesterday i knew that we had to sleep in because i think we went to bed at like 3am or something. yeah. we're leaving! we're going to india now. thailand out. unfortunately it doesn't look like there's much wind. but that's ok! but we're going sailing. we can't wait for everything right?
so it probably wasn't the best idea getting wasted last night. cause we didn't feel to flash waking up with a 400 mile sail ahead of us. look at all the butts! i know. all lined up for a nice little show. what are they looking at? i don't know the anchor probably. i'm excited to do some night watches. we did some emergency procedures so we're all a bit more knowledgeable. i'm hangovers! and i'm really happy to go to sea-hab. why are you hang overs? it's always good to get out, leave thailand, get out to the ocean, and live healthy for a few days.
for a few days?!?! ha ha. i don't really know what to do. i have butterflies. so i feel like running around you know, normally when we go somewhere we're only like 3 or 4 hours away. but now it's a few days. it's not like i can do a drawing and then we're like oh- we're there. i feel like we saw thailand. we had phad thai, thom kha gai soup. i lit my cigarette out of a girls woohoo. i got cheap massages, got attacked by a monkey, came into thailand on a beach. like the beach. i felt like leonardo dicappiccino. thailand out!
check! 10 seconds go how do you feel? 10 seconds. cooking some food. the first food for the passage. best country in asia i've been to so far. and i'm just excited for this whole new adventure. like everyone! crossing the indian ocean man! yeah man. woohoo! let's go cross the indian ocean. but i'm really glad we did that last night. what? the ping-pong show. i mean i just think it was interesting to see and like experience. what was the most impressive thing? yeah the cigarette was cool. yeah i reckon when she pulled out the little hamster thing and it just crawled away. i was like what the fucks that? it was a bit more disturbing than impressive though. i think you were more tripped out at the turtle. you looked at me like....
babs face like the whole time was like what?!?! the lead up to where we were at this point had been full on. it had been an intense month. of sailing around malaysia and thailand, adjusting to having 7 people on the boat, changing our rig on a tight schedule and provisioning for our 6 months of crossing the indian ocean. you could say we were a little excited and in pretty high spirits to be beginning our trip to the andaman islands. we slowly drifted nw, and eventually the sight of land had dissappeared. the morning of day 2 gave us a nice little surprise. there's some serious thunder around here.
so of course leaving yesterday flat calm, no wind motoring. we had a nice calm night with like 3 or 4 knots of breeze and motoring and then this morning the squalls kicked up! and it's gusting like 25 or 30. and we should be going that way but we're going that way. but that's just sailing i guess. this is the craziest i've experienced sailing yet. it's fun. what do you reckon? it's cool. i like it. there's lightening just now. pretty good shot of the squall but i think that we're just sailing with it. cause the conditions outside of the squall are supposed to be like
4 to 8 knots or something. so we're just kind of sailing inside the squall and moving along with it. and we're kind of going the right direction now so. and then the squall passed. back to floating. so we had some nice sailing this morning. we have indeed! it's been awesome a bit of a contrast to yesterday. we're about 20 degrees off course but, at least we're sailing! yeah! so that's great. yeah. awesome! day 2. it's brian's birthday today so we're just waiting for him to wake up. happy birthday dear breeyawn!
happy birthday to you!!! happy birthday! thank you! happy birthday brotha! thank you. you don't look a day over 12. happy birthday man! oh wow! ah ha ha ha. yeah new headphones! thank you! don't you dare chew on those ones. ohhh sweet! oh yeah.... that's me in my new shirt and some old american shorts. can we have a hip-hip hurah, hurah, hurah, hurah!
hurah, hurah! so swedish... and in dutch ready. (singing in dutch) yummy! is it hot down here? yeah mate i've been sweating a little bit. alright! just a little bit of bacon! with 7 people and limited refridgeration and storage having a massive plate of bacon is like the ultimate treat for us. i don't mind. oh we're both wearing the same shorts. yeah, they are really cool. i think i've been wearing these everyday now. i really need to wash them. i even took a shower in them. i'm working on a new video for
the trailer for youtube. i'm starting to work on that cause we need a new one. it's a bit out of date. do you have any cool ideas for it? some drone footage perhaps? of course. but we've definitely got some good footage to use. sort of cutting it down. should we make some cocktails? i think so. it's pretty much sundown. we're eating a lot of garlic tonight. that's good. what are you doing? making some ties. i'm gonna cut it out. what do you think the girls should have. what for?
for brian's birthday! putting our glams on? yeah they're gonna have ties. right now? yeah i'll sing it with you. put your glammers on delos put your glammers on! put your glammers on delos, put your glammers on! holy shit we're going 1 knot! we're hooning! the fastest that we've ever been before. check it out! yeah i don't know what she's on. but.... yup. we are drifting around. you're on watch. make sure the sails don't collapse. okay! just kidding.
sir yes sir! just kidding it's pretty much impossible babs. i don't know if it was the heat or the fact that we were a bunch of crazy sailors in the middle of the ocean, but just to warn you- we do seem a little more crazy than we normally are. ummmm. i don't know what we put in there. we have like 35 ingredients in that one. and we have a cake going in the oven. we're gonna just pour that and make it real juicy. josje-rama juicy cake. what did you put in there? we put oranges, lemons agave syrup, and brown sugar, and coconut powder,
and soy milk and water and coke and vanilla essence, and rum and.... a fresh orange. what do you smell? strange. strange scent. ah ha ha ha! chocolate frosting. the witches of delos. just wait. this is what you do when you go sailing. it's like a pirate mix. it's pirate cake. what's the recipe? make it up as you go. what's in there brady? this one? this is potatoes. what have you done with them? i see a pan of oil over here. i'm trying to dry them so i can deep fry them.
i hope you don't have rabies. i don't have rabies. from the monkey. let's see what it looks like. can i see the wound? so we have number 1 here monkey wound. and you have something here. nearly looks like a bite. when in rome. jeff he was all chilled out. he was like yeah, don't worry about it bro. they'll just crawl on you and hang out. all jacked up on heat and chocolate! heat and rabies! josjerama do you have a sweaty mustache? how long does it take the rabies to kick in? i think it's pretty quick right. got the deep fryer going on and it's hot!
ohhh yeahhh! that's what i'm talking bout. yeah that's why we need a brady. everybody loves cocaine! cocaine, hell of a drug! we were just gonna make some simple as brownie thing and we walk away with a masterpiece! ohhh! you put a shit load of icing sugar on it. ohhh yeah!!! ha ha. woo hoo! happy birthday! cheers.
put your glammers on. that's me. happy birthday brian. cheers! there are sweat beads dripping down the front of this. how did they wear those? i don't know man. where is it from? vanuatu. yours says the pretty one. manskraft. oye ya yoiu ya yoiu. life is good. and frida is wearing her glammers. can you share that with brady? very nice! how good are they? ohhh look it's got a little 39 on it. nice. and then we should put some in the freezer to save it. so we're sailing
at and i think it's soon 5 in the morning. and we've had steady winds all night and yeah let's have a look. it looks like the sticker on the main for the amel logo has came loose and it's getting caught in the furler when we try and furl up. so it's 6:30 in the morning and i have to go up and cut it off. we're hooning! 6 and 7 knots. we're gonna catch a fish today too right? yeah yah i have two lines out back and i think i'm gonna catch
a mahi-mahi today. what are you making? just a little salad thing. we found wind! it came. finally. yeah this morning. how many more miles do we have to go frida? like 180. ohhhh.... what is it? premium sweet gherkins! the reason why we haven't caught a fish is manskraft has not named his lure yet. day three! yeah it's weird. it's strange not seeing any land.
i'm still getting used to it. waking up and we're sailing! is it what you expected? yeah. it's real, it's more calm then i expected. and the night watches are... yeah it's fun writing the log book. and learning lots of things! and today we have kind of like a left over noodle-curry soup kind of thing. with some veggies. yeah! what are you doing? you salty sailor you. ohhhh yeah! i'm gonna get my water bottle and fill it up because i'm thirsty! ah ha. dinner's ready it you guys want dinner!
what's up brotha? hows the sailing going? really good man. it's perfect. it's a perfect first sail to get out of phuket with. all the newbies are doing really well. nobody's seasick. you can do the work. umm hmmm. what have we got going on up here? i actually feel a bit sick. do you? cause it's so rolly. this is the first time that i've actually felt that i feel a bit you know. i was a bit scared that the ocean would fell too big and you would feel like quite small but i actually feel like it's empowering being out at sea. cause you feel big. and you don't have any traffic, where you have to worry about other boats. at least not where we are now.
so i feel that it's.... it feels nice! how many miles? ummm. i think it's about 160. so it's 2:30 in the morning now. ummm. and we've been sailing steady for pretty much since yesterday morning. it's been a perfect beam reach with 10-15 knots ummm. and... the stars are out. it's a really lovely evening. and we are about 90 miles away from port blair. so we should be there tomorrow just probably around 2 or 3 o'clock.
just woke up for watch on day 4. beautiful downwind sailing. the wind is still 15 knots of the east or something. so we're doing really good. we have 40 miles to go and then we'll be in the andamans! this is a bunch of random things we had in the bottom of the fishing box. so this is gonna be christened the frankenbeast! it's 2 broken lures wrapped around a rusty bolt head with an old wire leader and a massive hook that we have left over from the good ole' days back in the south pacific when there used to be big fish. what's going on max? i'm resting and
keeping an eye on the lures. the people are friendly and welcoming but the bureaucracy may put you off. a sense of humor, patience, and a few side to side head wobbles will get you far. we gotta practice that. oh good morning! the andaman islands, the jewels of the sea! where the sand is beautiful and the waves are like eyelashes. i feel like i'm coming out of my cacoon. i'm a new oyster. jewels of the sea. the sand here is spectacular. and it's just a fucking phuck, phuck, plop.
clump of grey shit. fresh coconut! it makes me feel alive! it makes me feel born again. have manskraft give you a massive later. where is he? he's on the back there. what is he doing there? he's waiting for a fish. port blair radio, port blair radio, port blair radio this is sailing vessel delos. it's always a little nerve wracking arriving into a new country and after all the crazy stories we heard about yachts dealing with the bureaucracy dealing in the andamans we knew we were in for a bit of a ride with the officials. sailing yacht port blair port control. one-zero. roger that one-zero.
yes we're just radioing ahead of our arrival time at about 5:00pm. over. roger confirm your eta port blair. 5pm. confirm your heading towards port blair. heading 3... heading is 285. roger and ok 285 copy. and speed? speed is 6 knots. roger. heading 285 speed 6 knots eta 5pm, 17:00 confirm? yes that is all correct over. confirm do you have any local agent at port blair?
local agent? no we do not have a local agent in port blair over. roger. your last port of call? phuket, thailand. number of crew including master? number of crew is 7 including master over. roger. uhhhh. uhhhh. total crew zero-seven including master. all having a valid visa? yes sir all have a valid visa over. thanks, thank you very much. good day. bye! thank you standing by on one six.
holy shit! jesus. have a good day. bye. ok what color are my panties? 11 minutes later. yeah, that's india. have you showered today sir? what is all that? did you write a novel josje? yeah i did no, it's our paperwork for the andaman islands. so it's a 3 copies, 4 copies of boat inventory. that they require. and an literary, two copies of the literary. i like how you put a picture of the boat up there. is that required or do you just do that to make it look legit? it just makes it looks legit. and then you got a stamp too. oh i need to stamp this one.
crew list. 4 copies. for each of the four authorities i guess. harbor master, customs, immigration, and the navy. and then what took up most is the fucking passport shit because they require 8 copies of passport photo page, and 8 copies of indian visa page. for 7 people. so it's a lot! fuck yeah we look real official. there you go get it! are you ready? just make sure i don't get it upside down. that would be embarrassing. ohhh yeah!! it feels good to stamp shit. which country? united states of america.
repeat. come back which country sir? usa. united states of america! do not copy! come on man. usa motha' fucker! best country in the world ever. home of the brave, land of the free! i'm sure 5 of your cousins live in seattle. oh yes seattle i like the spring time there. no we shouldn't make fun of their accent should we. i think it's gonna be like a long 5 hours. they're making fun of us right now. you know that. land! land ho!
frida there's land! turn around! yeah there it is. does anybody know what the indian flag looks like? nope. sorry. i think this is sri lanka. isn't it red and green and yellow? i bettcha the doc from noonsite has one on it. yeah there it is. that's what it looks like. is that it? are you sure? nope but we'll find out. they're gonna be pissed. what is a quarantine flag? it means like you've just come into port and your you're in quarantine. you gotta hide your rapies from thailand. nobody's allowed to come on or off.
you mean the monkey onboard? nope. you mean the west african monkey? oh yes... brady's monkey. will they be surprised to see young people? do you think? hello greetings! rashneesh was unsuccessful. no fish. we are here! do a victory dance frida. nice! we'll just sail right into the harbor like the good old days. we are entering the harbor, one of the most protective harbors in the world. welcome to the jewels of the sea!
good job! yeah the dingies in the way huh? it's cool how official they are coming from other countries where they don't give a fuck about anything. port control yacht delos. one zero! they were waiting. he was standing by with finger on it like uhhh. this is yacht delos on one zeo. please come in. yeah we have anchored west of chattam island. you have dropped anchor? yes we are safely anchored over. okay copy.
thank you. okay we'll be standing by on one six over. thank you. okay now we wait. we made it to the andamans! the jewels of the sea! up next! we experience some intense bureaucracy when checking in customs decide to lock away our sat phone. and we get our first taste of india! where are we???? that's gonna be a real good angle. don't do that brady! fresh orange, vanilla essence, and some lemon essence as well.
and a bit of coffee. yup. a bit of chilli powder. lemon juice. what was the brown strange. yeah the all spice. the brown one. name of master. brian trautman. bravo india alpha..... bravo romeo! ah haa haa ha ha. bian.
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