I love seeing the villages and the local people and how they live. But then I am an anthropologist, so I have a slight bias. It's always good to see you two as well, no matter the weather. Safe travels!
5:49 - yeah, it's an old-news comment - but this drone capture of the boat with its handsome and useful 'dodger' looks very good and at home in the sea. I'd post a 2nd LIKE, if it was allowed. Again, at 9:00.
As an engineer in a broadcast facility I would on a semiannual basis disconnect and reconnect the British Naval Connectors (BNC) on the back of the electronics. This by itself would clean the contacts. Seems a bit of humidity would cause the most imperceptible amount of oxide to form which would impair the higher frequencies. This procedure may help with your data flow issue. Fair winds.
We have a Go but didn't have time to get a new SIM sent, Sue. We have had excellent cell phone coverage on the whole and have not needed it. Can't justify paying all that money for the odd day of no internet. Offshore passages are different of course.
11:00 - how often (seems almost never in your filming) do these remote locals ask that you NOT PHOTOGRAPH them, nor put them in your videos? It's cool to see them being welcoming and friendly, and happy and content to be living an 'uncluttered' life. 13:04 - and yet, not removed from the fun of a kids' treehouse.
QUESTION: 4:02 - when you're trimmed as you are here with no main, just sails forward and aft - is there a noticeably different 'balance' to the movement through the water?
If anyone in a small village like that asks and you want to fire up their imagination, point out that you can build a boat like Esper with just fencing wire, chicken wire, a special mix of cement, local timber, and a lot of time. Ferro cement is the perfect material for remote locations like that, and it doesn’t even have to be painted if they get the cement mix right. Knowledge is Freedom.
Well they were half way there with those home made bricks, William! They tend to prefer wood over here, though most only traverse the local waters and only venture out into the local sea.
@@followtheboat I’m just saying about creativity. Where I grew up in Port Moresby the local kids would take a sheet of roofing tin, bend the ends up and nail both sides to a piece of wood both ends, seal the gaps with tar from the roads, and in half a day have a boat which they would row way off shore into deep water. They could take a piece of wood and fashion it into an oar with a hatchet in 10 minutes. Super skilled. Cement boat hulls though have 100 year permanence, and don’t burn to the waterline, just not fashionable in our culture. A properly built ferro cement boat you cannot pick from a fiberglass one. But for foreshore communities as the ones you are visiting ferro cement is the perfect material for houseboats, and those fishing platforms. Zero fire risk (where they cook with ope fires), or wood worm problems.
At first sight, you might think these people are poor and downtrodden. The truth is they are rich in so many ways and have freedoms most of us can only dream of.
Cheers guys, please nobody say these people are poor! They don’t know and care even less.. a feeling us “western world” people only had a glimpse of not worrying about money, probably around 0-6 years old, the rest of our life’s it’s always a concern… 😊
Very little happened in this episode yet it is easily my favorite! I, too, love the architecture -- "... first thing you do is make bricks..." -- and especially the disparate color schemes that somehow work. Eighty cats -- here in the U.S. that would warrant a visit from the petty functionaries who stomp on our lives. But in Posilagon, it makes sense. Hussein's son loves cats! I'm exceeding my bandwidth; translated: My cup runneth over! Thanks guys! Best regards.
interesting that even in a country with limited connection to the world every one is trying to connect to the Internet in order to get their little glimpse to what is out there on the web
TBH not many of them were bothered, most were getting on with daily chores. I had the impression that the kids and teenagers were using the mast as a gathering point. 😁 Liz
I wonder what would happen if someone showed up there with a Starlink connection on his boat... (and maybe shared it with the lonely boy who wasn't part of the "In-Crowd") ...all of a sudden, 150 Mbit/s ...
The slow connection didn't seem to bother anyone, because they have little to compare it with. To give them rocket-fuelled connection then take it away might be worse? I'm hoping they'll catch up with their neighbouring villages at some point. Liz 🙏
@@followtheboat Good point. Someone (a.k.a. the government) should spring the money and get them a Starlink uplink. IIRC, Elon stated explicitly, Starlink is not for people in some urban sprawl that have trouble with their cable but for really remote places that have no (or nearly no) internet. I guess this village should qualify. :-)
i wonder,if you are a member of the village,say newly weds and you want to build a home do you just choose a piece of land or do you have to purchase it from the government and is it right that they don't pay any kind of tax? i don't know if you guy's have the answer or not
Every bit of land is owned by someone and has to be bought by someone else. I don't know why these people don't pay tax? Although it's probably true that many of them earn so little that they are not expected to pay tax. Liz
Gosh, that's amazing, they'd never even seen images of white people! With us it was simply that they'd never seen a sailboat in their village. Probably because it's not on the way to anywhere so most people wouldn't need to stop there. After all, we only stopped for shelter. 🙏 Liz
Esper has a lovely set of sails. Lovely and clean and smart. Love that.
We have spent a lot of time sailing around Indonesia 🇮🇩 and have always loved there friendship and there culture. Realy like your channel . Enjoy
Isn't it a friendly place? Love it here. Liz
19:40 is a good capture.
Great vill
80th desktop phantom shipmate LIKE and view 397 beginning...
The effect the Internet has on the world can't be overstated. Thanks for sharing this rarely-seen part of the world. 👏
This is true. I'm a slave to it, bit I relish the times I put my phone down and walk away from the internet.
I always enjoyed coming across isolated little villages like this where a smile comes from everyone.
Absolutely, Rick. It's what makes it for us.
brilliant
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😃👍👏👏👏🐻 No SSB?
Once upon a time, yes. Too much hassle and for email to much expense. We'll boot up the satphone when we're ready though.
What great place and what a nice bunch of people👍
Indeed they were, and they sorted us out with all their diesel too. I took the last drum!
Very nice footage. I enjoyed it very much. Terima kasih.
Sama Sama! 🙏
I love seeing the villages and the local people and how they live. But then I am an anthropologist, so I have a slight bias. It's always good to see you two as well, no matter the weather. Safe travels!
Cheers, Dovid. Yes, communities like this are endlessly fascinating, welcoming and fun (as a visitor, of course).
5:49 - yeah, it's an old-news comment - but this drone capture of the boat with its handsome and useful 'dodger' looks very good and at home in the sea.
I'd post a 2nd LIKE, if it was allowed. Again, at 9:00.
😁👌
As an engineer in a broadcast facility I would on a semiannual basis disconnect and reconnect the British Naval Connectors (BNC) on the back of the electronics. This by itself would clean the contacts. Seems a bit of humidity would cause the most imperceptible amount of oxide to form which would impair the higher frequencies. This procedure may help with your data flow issue. Fair winds.
Thanks for the tip. Yes, it's nearly always cables and connectors causing the problem. 🙏 Liz
Do you have an Iridium go and use PredictWind? We find that even in the PNW that it is very useful to get weather..as cell coverage can be spotty
We have a Go but didn't have time to get a new SIM sent, Sue. We have had excellent cell phone coverage on the whole and have not needed it. Can't justify paying all that money for the odd day of no internet. Offshore passages are different of course.
11:00 - how often (seems almost never in your filming) do these remote locals ask that you NOT PHOTOGRAPH them, nor put them in your videos?
It's cool to see them being welcoming and friendly, and happy and content to be living an 'uncluttered' life. 13:04 - and yet, not removed from the fun of a kids' treehouse.
The general reaction when they don't want to be filmed is hand up ✋ with lots of giggling!
Wow i did not know people have not seen sailboats.
QUESTION: 4:02 - when you're trimmed as you are here with no main, just sails forward and aft - is there a noticeably different 'balance' to the movement through the water?
There tends to be less heeling, Peter, so it is more comfortable. And yes, it feels very balanced.
If anyone in a small village like that asks and you want to fire up their imagination, point out that you can build a boat like Esper with just fencing wire, chicken wire, a special mix of cement, local timber, and a lot of time. Ferro cement is the perfect material for remote locations like that, and it doesn’t even have to be painted if they get the cement mix right. Knowledge is Freedom.
Well they were half way there with those home made bricks, William! They tend to prefer wood over here, though most only traverse the local waters and only venture out into the local sea.
@@followtheboat I’m just saying about creativity. Where I grew up in Port Moresby the local kids would take a sheet of roofing tin, bend the ends up and nail both sides to a piece of wood both ends, seal the gaps with tar from the roads, and in half a day have a boat which they would row way off shore into deep water. They could take a piece of wood and fashion it into an oar with a hatchet in 10 minutes. Super skilled. Cement boat hulls though have 100 year permanence, and don’t burn to the waterline, just not fashionable in our culture. A properly built ferro cement boat you cannot pick from a fiberglass one. But for foreshore communities as the ones you are visiting ferro cement is the perfect material for houseboats, and those fishing platforms. Zero fire risk (where they cook with ope fires), or wood worm problems.
@@williambunting803 the second boat I ever sailed was ferro, all the way from the UK to Portugal. Solid boat.
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At first sight, you might think these people are poor and downtrodden. The truth is they are rich in so many ways and have freedoms most of us can only dream of.
Well said. We often think this when stumbling across a community like Posilagon.
Cheers guys, please nobody say these people are poor! They don’t know and care even less.. a feeling us “western world” people only had a glimpse of not worrying about money, probably around 0-6 years old, the rest of our life’s it’s always a concern… 😊
Hi Trev. I'm sure they have their own issues and worries to deal with just like all of us, but perhaps their priorities are different.
This is the ultimate entertainment for an almost frozen Norwegian - we have a wood fire going on then.
Happy to be throwing a little hygge your way! Stay warm. Liz
Very little happened in this episode yet it is easily my favorite! I, too, love the architecture -- "... first thing you do is make bricks..." -- and especially the disparate color schemes that somehow work. Eighty cats -- here in the U.S. that would warrant a visit from the petty functionaries who stomp on our lives. But in Posilagon, it makes sense. Hussein's son loves cats! I'm exceeding my bandwidth; translated: My cup runneth over! Thanks guys! Best regards.
Always a pleasure, Daniel. It's one of our fave episodes too. That's always the case when there's sailing and meeting the locals.
interesting that even in a country with limited connection to the world every one is trying to connect to the Internet in order to get their little glimpse to what is out there on the web
TBH not many of them were bothered, most were getting on with daily chores. I had the impression that the kids and teenagers were using the mast as a gathering point. 😁 Liz
Funny the tower is there and they have to sit around the tower? Means it is a lousy communication tower
I think it's just lousy because of its location. Who knows where it's picking that signal up from.
I wonder what would happen if someone showed up there with a Starlink connection on his boat... (and maybe shared it with the lonely boy who wasn't part of the "In-Crowd") ...all of a sudden, 150 Mbit/s ...
The slow connection didn't seem to bother anyone, because they have little to compare it with. To give them rocket-fuelled connection then take it away might be worse? I'm hoping they'll catch up with their neighbouring villages at some point. Liz 🙏
@@followtheboat Good point. Someone (a.k.a. the government) should spring the money and get them a Starlink uplink. IIRC, Elon stated explicitly, Starlink is not for people in some urban sprawl that have trouble with their cable but for really remote places that have no (or nearly no) internet.
I guess this village should qualify. :-)
i wonder,if you are a member of the village,say newly weds and you want to build a home do you just choose a piece of land or do you have to purchase it from the government and is it right that they don't pay any kind of tax? i don't know if you guy's have the answer or not
Every bit of land is owned by someone and has to be bought by someone else. I don't know why these people don't pay tax? Although it's probably true that many of them earn so little that they are not expected to pay tax. Liz
Goldilocks sailing
Yes! Exactly that ⛵👌
I remember sailing into a small Village called Baitora Vanuatu , The children thought we were Ghosts ..
they had never seen White People .
Gosh, that's amazing, they'd never even seen images of white people! With us it was simply that they'd never seen a sailboat in their village. Probably because it's not on the way to anywhere so most people wouldn't need to stop there. After all, we only stopped for shelter. 🙏 Liz
What is the red and white flag
It’s the Indonesian National flag.
@@wannabe1259 must that flag be flown
Yes, it's a courtesy flag. All boats fly the flag of the country they're checked in to.