Torren Martyn - 'Calypte - a sailing and surfing voyage' - needessentials

[Music] we finally made it well we haven't quite made it but the malaka state all of Thailand Singapore Malaysia is pretty much behind us how [Music] good wonder what the future looks like for us wonder how long we're going to last [Music] remember before I started the trip I remember just looking at at the map and thinking like I don't even know what I'm doing no idea how to style no idea how to fix anything no [Music] [Music] idea the thought of living on the ocean chasing waves and traveling with the wind was something we'd always dreamed of despite not having any legitimate sailing experience ay and I took a leap of faith when we set off on a year-long adventure into the Indian [Music] Ocean [Music] our Voyage on a trusty little 35t mono Hull would take us over 5,000 nordal miles from the semi-protected waters in the Gulf of Thailand up the infamous Malika straight I think we got that second wind and into the vast open ocean and the Wilds of [Music] Indonesia we were tested challenged and rewarded in more ways than we could have ever imagined [Music] y seems to be still [Music] Ling [Music] [Music] I met Ayan in the surf in Byron Bay nearly 4 years ago while she was on an adventure of her own living happily on Dry Cereal and sleeping unhinged in the back of her Little Old Wagon exploring and surfing her way down the East Coast of Australia ayan's glow light-hearted humor and witty personality was so magnetizing that after just a few days of knowing each other I convinced her to cancel her flight home to California sell the wagon and move into my van with me and drive across [Music] Australia [Music] back home in California Ayana had spent a good chunk of her life studying and analyzing the natural world whilst the rest of her time was spent farming riding and [Music] surfing and for me my name's Torin I'm a traveling Surfer and filmmaker from Byron Bay Australia I'm fortunate enough to work with a small Surf Company who enabled me to do what I love for a [Music] living this whole new adventure sprouted from ay and I been drawn to each other through our love of the ocean and for years we've shared the same dream of sailing the Seas and had been working towards getting a boat of our [Music] own the only problem was that neither of us had ever actually sailed before so before getting too far ahead of ourselves we picked up a little sailing dinghy to learn the very basic principles of sailing oh PR damn that was pretty f with our growing curiosity and eagerness to learn more our good friend Ryan took us under his wing and over the ropes on his own little boat teaching us how to handle and what to look for in a capable cruising boat so completely release that bring this one all the way yep and then and pull that back on there yeah over a few months we made the most of any and every opportunity that presented itself to gather as much experience is possible yeah you finger for there it'll take the fing straight off so really careful with it open growing up it was mostly mom and I then in later years I connected with my dad and whilst Diana and I were searching for a boat to buy we learned that he had a beautiful and capable little 35t model sitting unused and up for sale in the Gulf of Thailand Sol perfect long story short he offered us the deal of a lifetime to move his boat from Thailand to [Music] Indonesia before we knew it we were on our way to Thailand with the idea that we could learn to sail as we go take the long way round and hopefully get some waves on the way [Music] [Music] we arrived in the bustling Metropolis of Bangkok and instantly felt like we were in another world we met cipti in the relatively small city of Patia just a few hour drive from Bangkok kyp is an endurance 35 originally built and launched in Canada in 1982 with one and a half circum navigations under her belt Kip's beautiful lines and solid full kill make her an incredibly safe and seaworthy vessel with the help of the local family who had cared for her we spent the first couple of weeks preparing cypi for the journey ahead cleaning out mold repairing leaks repainting replacing navigational instruments and getting familiar with what would soon become our new little home on the ocean these are epic photos of when caly was built Ayan and I would be living aboard cipti for the duration of the journey while other friends would be joining us periodically to help us sail and document the highs and lows of the [Music] trip given our lack of sailing experience we were going to need some help and guidance learning the ropes in the early stages of the journey that's where George comes in George has spent the last two decades living on the ocean and is a salt of the earth type a seasoned sailor and a skilled mechanic with an incredible wealth of knowledge we were lucky enough to recruit George to join us for the first leg of our journey from ptia to Singapore which was approximately 1100 nordal miles and would take us around 2 weeks of sailing so I'd run parallel with that line per shpping back it had been such a build up to this point and everything had been moving so fast it felt Monumental to be out on the ocean and on our way we had everything we needed and so much time and space ahead of [Music] us first fish of the trip first fish little mahi [Music] go do you know what your new name is amazing [Music] person it had been an action-packed week as we began to cover some Ground Learning the ropes traveling with the wind and slowing down to adjust to our new way of being our average speed on cype was just above walking pace and this trip was going to be a long and true test of our endurance just off off the coast of Malaysia our engine overheated there was no wind and we were fighting current so we had to tow cyti in thei for about 7 mil to the closest Anchorage George and I spent a few hours without our heading the engine trying to figure out what the problem was Monster oh no a monster turns out a chip packet had clogged the seawater intake causing the engine to overheat a simple and recurring problem gave us our first real lesson in the realities of boat life and just a preview of the bigger problem of plastic pollution in the ocean meanwhile Ayan had scouted the island in the tender and by complete surprise she discovered a perfect little leftand Point Break look how fun that looks first time ever sailing to Surf but it was a complete luck that there's a wave here whilst this whole Adventure was fured by the desire to Surf and search for New Waves we weren't really expecting to be surfing until we got to the Indonesian archipelago which still lays 6 weeks and 1500 M away after these first couple of weeks on the ocean we were quick realizing just how much there was to learn and just how little we actually knew we were total novices to it all and at times I felt completely foreign and out of place on the boat almost as if I was learning to speak another language George was teaching us everything from the basics of handling lines and trimming sails to keeping Watch Reading charts and operating [Music] instruments we were learning how to service and maintain the engine how to deal with the fire if there was one and how to react and what to do if someone went overboard George had been our lifeline and now that I knew what we were in for it seemed even more overwhelming to think that soon we'd be out here doing all of this on our [Music] own [Music] after covering about 1,000 miles in the first few weeks we stopped in Malaysia to make a few repairs and restock the boat with spare parts clean fuel and fresh food before our last big jump to the wave Rich islands of Indonesia it was here that George bid us farewell George had been in an absolute Legend he had taught us just about everything we knew today and encouragingly prepared us for what lay ahead we had a new friend Kelly joining us to help us sail and document this next exciting chapter Kelly being an accomplished sailor and an enthusiastic filmmaker had reached out to Ayan and I knowing that we were in need of some extra help and guidance for this next big part of our [Music] journey we were nearing the infamous malaka straight long before we'd even started the trip this part of the journey had been Plain on our minds ahead of us lay 600 challenging miles through some of the busiest shipping Landes in the world we'd heard countless stories and warnings about pirate activity merciless cargo ships and unmarked fishing boats as well as strong currents and unpredictable weather [Music] patterns while this leg of the trip was a notorious and daunting part of our Voyage it was also Monumental as soon we'd be Crossing into the Indian Ocean and finally surfing I think we got that second [Music] win [Music] I feel like you know you like don't quite realize that there was like waves breaking over the bow and then like across the boat and stuff well I realiz it was so scary wasn't it our fears of the malaka strait were behind us we'd survived some heavy squalls dodged a few cargo ships and the closest thing we came to any Pirates were a few friendly fishermen who only wanted cold drinks and snacks in exchange for fresh fish and big [Music] smiles number 338 running out of Provisions wow wow look at that oh it looks [Music] delicious we raised the Indonesian flag with pure joy and a sense of [Music] accomplishment [Music] bir we cleared into the country classic Indonesian style and we're one big slow step closer to surface [Music] that I have the boat registration the insurance the well I don't [Music] I can't believe that this part of the journey is now pretty much behind us it's really exciting I can't even imagine sailing up to our first surf break and anchoring and jumping in the dinghy and going and surfing so ready for it it's I think it's been about 6 or seven weeks now it's been a fullon mission we're nearly there if we're greeted by a wave oh that'll be the best thing ever [Music] down there see look at his wow oh my God are you kidding me that is so beautiful wo saw that right that was a spitting tube what do we do let's drop the [Music] anchor [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] [Music] after seven long weeks of bobbing along the ocean we were finally surfing and waking up to the sounds of the Jungle with the sweet smell of burning coconut husks in the offshore winds the sudden Prospect of finding a new wave made the days not feel long enough for the first time in a long time it felt like there was nowhere else we needed to be really nice you can hear the birds and [Music] everything [Music] [Music] oh [Music] nah [Music] [Music] n [Music] n [Music] hello it had been a month since we've been able to rest and all of our supplies were running low our diets had become very simple so reaching these small villages was exciting and it meant that we could refill our fridge with fresh fruit and vegetables and anything else we could get our hands on [Music] [Music] hello come hey man m [Music] m what's yeah growing up I would regularly travel to Indonesia and I've developed a strong connection with this part of the world this country and its people are so full of spirit and warmth I love how resourceful the local people are and how time is on another scale here no problem is ever too big or too small and their light-hearted humor and big smiles are so [Applause] [Music] puning puning Trad yeah he's invited me out to go tomorrow no way yeah home oh you played directly into my trap I see Checkmate no nwhere put [Music] there [Music] n [Music] a [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] m the past month had been an incredible and pivotal part of our journey so far and we were really stoked to have Kelly with us as he'd been great to lean on and learn from whil it's really boosting our confidence and confidency and in our little cypi it was time to thank Kelly for his help and we welcomed our good friend Ryan and my best M isar into our new home you made [Music] it see this is home TR to hold into the wind R it yeah as we ventured deeper into the Indian Ocean the added elements of sailing and anchoring around shallow reefs breaking waves and the unpredictable tropical weather became new extremes Ryan has spent a good chunk of his life as a liver board sailor and has a lot of experience of sailing to surf whilst both Ayan and I had learned a lot about our boat we still had so much to learn so it was great to have Ryan with [Music] us that's 35 need to send this way [Music] [Applause] o speech forign speech foreign spe speech foreign speech foreign speeech for speech speech forign speech speech foreign speech speech foreign spe speech fore speech speech fore speech foreign [Music] speeech not a [Music] [Music] small [Music] foree foreign speech foreign spe speech fore speech foreign speech speech foree spech fore speech foreign speech foreign spe speech foreign speech foreign speech for speech fore warning of perfect little dreamy tubes then why is boat life just so stressful how much wind is that 35 knots it's probably starting to get higher see that see the M across it yeah that's said of getting like almost close to yesterday he going again what getting stronger think we get another little Gap West R I think you're right I'm just kind to dread anchoring around shallow reefs and Bays to go surfing had become a part of life it meant that we were always kept on our toes by the weather my biggest fear in these kind of situations was that something on the boat would fail at the worst possible time potentially sending us ground and ending our journey abruptly it didn't help that we were also finding our navigational charts and maps to be inaccurate and unreliable which only added to the pressure and stress in these kind of moments yep seems to be still leaking got a leaky Stern Glam something can sink your boat pretty quick tripping out of there and then running down it about life go off the dingy go off the dingy sh it's a big run H don't don't don't bring it what if it crawls onto the boat look at what's happening now no yeah oh there the head there's a sea snake somewhere on the boat man I doubt it would have gone back in the water why not pretty pretty nice on here I do it's [Music] pretty that that I can't believe they said that this thing kill you that's not what I like expect to be here think you might be pping in that little crocodile [Music] way [Music] friendship working together Hunters a male born unbreakable ishka and I have been on some wild adventures together we've shared some of the most profound and memorable times of our lives in each other's company it was epic to have ishka here for parts of the journey to share this new chapter it's isa's patience hardworking but calm easygoing nature as well as his dedication to film making and his family that I admire the most about him while iska was only visiting for short periods of time his role on cypi apart from chain knocker rice cooker and morale booster was to help us document this trip and bring this film to a [Music] lot that was a that was aish [Applause] M what are we going to eat now this say how can you let this happen it was a nice effort but I feel like this is a terrible Omen for isa's birthday not trying to I'm not trying to freak you out or anything [Music] but you're a trooper is happy birthday man set [Music] set oh wish he got this [Music] yeah yes wooo [Music] wo [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] n we'd had an amazing couple of weeks of waves and a real taste of it all whilst ishka and Ryan were aboard Ryan had been really encouraging and supportive leading into this trip and I was really grateful to be able to share these last couple of weeks with him and have his guidance on this journey Ryan's departure meant that for the next 8 months on calypte it was up to Ayan and I we had over 2,000 miles to explore between here and our final destination of lombok I cherish the time that Ryan George and Kelly had given us their patience encouragement and hand down of knowledge was invaluable to us and it gave us the confidence to continue on our path it had been 2 and 1/2 months since we left Thailand and the time had come that we were now completely on our own less than 6 months ago we barely ever stepped foot on a sailboat now here we were just floating sailing alone in the Indian Ocean we had just crossed the equator we were in a new space where time itself seemed as if it had slowed down just the two of us suspended over thousands of meters of [Music] water there were days and sometimes weeks that it felt like we were the only people on earth [Music] a new sense of Freedom adventure and vulnerability that neither of us had ever felt [Music] before [Music] a there was something so satisfying and exhilarating about a good day of sailing being healed over in 20 knots of wind under a full set of sails was as good as it gets to be sharing this whole experience with Ayana was everything I'd ever dreamed of whoa I think there wives are all around the [Music] [Music] top [Music] and she in sh might make [Music] and in me me make [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] n [Music] oh [Music] don't shut [Music] up how I was so high the Stars had aligned and I just experienced one of the best days of my life this was everything I'd ever dreamed of Surfing perfect empty waves with not another soul in sight cypi our home contently bobbing away in the channel we had everything we could ever need I felt like the luckiest person on [Music] Earth do do do do do do do do do do do [Music] do do do do do do do do do do do do [Music] do [Music] yeah you got me that sounds um sketchy what what happened got in there about 4:00 or 5:00 before sort of that afternoon storm moves in and set the anchor it was like everything was sweet I think his intentions were good but he's like no no no follow me and I'm like I kind of knew but I'm like oh this guy's a local and we get in there and there's just like rocks pretty much sticking out of the water it's like this little tiny little goose neck and where he wants to still anchor there's like no room at all to swing around it's 2 m here really CH 1.7 there a prop right [Music] there one of our biggest fears out here was running ground in those first few moments between impact and Diving the hull to assess the damage I was so rattled we were hundreds of miles from the nearest place the hle out if the H was seriously damaged the boat could have sunk right there look at the state of this thing heavy that was just about to be a total disaster I [Music] think there's a classic saying about boats that it's not a matter of if but when something is going to break and as the novice sailor and a clueless mechanic I found this thought often clouding over me things were always breaking on the boat and there was always some new problem that needed attention living on a boat required endless dedication and time towards maintaining repairing and planning I loved this about living on a boat and found it empowering and rewarding it's so satisfying getting those Barnacles but it meant that we were nearly always dictated by the mood of cipti and traveled to her schedule often missing out on good waves and nice weather windows for s [Music] months were beginning to float by at times there would be long stin without phone signal and contact with the outside [Music] world [Music] anytime we weren't surfing preparing food or working on the boat we'd spend fishing and scaring the beaches for shells and coconuts food from the ocean was a big part of our diets anything we couldn't catch ourselves we would trade or buy from the local [Music] fishermen simple but essential things like Diesel and clean drinking water had to be soured and carried back to cype in jugs and Jerry cans at times the local fishermen would deliver up to 400 L of diesel in the middle of the night jeez rudimentary tasks that in our old lives would normally take 15 minutes would sometimes take days or more but it was this new way of life and these small interactions with complete strangers that gave each day purpose and made this journey so much more enriching this whole journey had come around so fast that at times I just found myself gazing out at an endless Horizon trying to soak it all in aor encouraged me to go home home to see my grandma leaving her alone on cypi in a remote group of islands for 2 weeks I left confident in ayan's ability to handle cype on her own but at home I watched the weather forecast intently and nervously as system after system move through this little chain of islands with regular squalls and winds up to 50 [Music] knots every couple of days I would get little updates from aana assuring me that everything was okay and under control my love for Ayan was deepening in a way that I had no control of her commitment courage and strength through this whole personal and physical Journey inspired me endlessly her ability to adapt be strong and encourage me when she could clearly tell that I was in over my head only made my love for her grow stronger [Music] come on g go off oh look at [Music] him [Music] w [Music] n [Music] oh [Music] w [Music] n [Music] we need look at that corn looks pretty good it had been a consistent dreamy run of waves and kind weather but we knew it wasn't going to last forever the change of seasons was upon us and it was time to get moving towards our final destination of lombok which lay 1500 M southeast of [Music] here the ocean has always been a special place for me but over this journey my respect and connection to her only deepened at night the constellations paint stories across the sky and in the mornings the serenity of the Horizon stretches beyond my imagination the ocean elegance and raw power are [Music] boundless there is something so magical and also something so unnerving about being at the mercy of Mother Nature and her ever changing moods in a way she has become a Fickle friend and out here I'm constantly reminded of her power and of my own insignificance we learned that we were experiencing an Indian Ocean dipole year resulting in warmer weather conditions and unseasonal tropical weather systems which meant frequent and intense storms in times when we'd have no phone signal talking to and studying the movements of the local fishermen became our best source of weather forecasting the Run of challenging weather continued and we hadn't left anchor for nearly 2 weeks no waves living on rations in a soggy leaky boat that was getting smaller by the day Cabin Fever was setting [Music] [Music] in a a little bit of [Music] sunshine [Music] here it comes I can say [Music] it look at it [Music] thank you fish we really needed that fish [Music] [Music] some of my favorite moments were alone on deck at night when we'd be making a passage the wind would fall completely still leaving the sails gently filling and emptying themselves in the soft sway of calypte the surface of the ocean would turn to Glass reflecting the stars of the night and in that moment as the Horizon disappeared it would feel just as if we were floating through [Music] space a total dream State one moment and then a nightmare the [Music] next one particular Night Under full sale on an overnight passage we had the biggest scare of Our Lives it was just after midnight I was on my way down to wake Ayana up for her watch when I routinely checked the build to find that we were taking on a lot lot of water at a rapid rate the engine was already nearly completely swamped it was clear the B pump wasn't working I could hear water gurgling in from the bottom of the hall as each gust of wind and waves yed us over I woke ay up in a flurry trying to find where the water was coming in from trapped in a sinking boat floating over hundreds of meters of water far from any land or Hell shaken and exhausted in the complete darkness we both sat there Frozen staring at each other [Music] speechless that first minute felt like an hour in that moment we felt so alone and helpless I couldn't believe i' gotten us into this situation there was no Escape no tap out button and no one else to help I felt sick to my stomach and I just wanted to wake up from a bad dream we decided our best bet was to tack cype around on a complete 180° course and sail back to the closest landfall which was 30 m or 7 long hours sail if we could keep her afloat on the new heading we were able to control the rate of water coming into the boat and we limped back to the nearest [Applause] land yes that's it that's it big win that's a big wind semis successful turnaround I'd say better than being on the bottom of the ocean the next morning we figured out that the problem was a broken return valve on the village pump and we're able to fix it before setting off again we were reminded of just what was at stake it was crazy to think that something as simple as a small valve could have been so consequential this only added to the growing trepidation I felt about the big open ocean Crossing we had to make to get ourselves and calip to [Music] lombok [Music] [Music] 1 2 [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] oh new one [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] it looks like after like Thursday the the storms start moving or the storms are more up here the time had come to face the longest and final leg of our journey we'd nervously been watching a few heavy Systems pass below us and eventually turn into Cyclones off the northwest coast of Australia and then March their way back out into the Indian Ocean only weeks before us an experienced sailor on a similar sized vessel as ours had been dismas and lost his engine in a brutal storm that left him a drift for over a week before any help arrived as we refueled and prepared the boat for the last leg of our Voyage I couldn't help but feel anxious and wary about the unknown territory ahead of us they're coming now with the diesel and the water and stuff look heaps of [Music] it is that oh yeah for the next 14400 miles there would be many long stretches with little to no refuge if the weather turned bad or something failed on the boat at our average speed of 4 knots I'd calculated that it was going to take us at least 14 days of traveling 24 hours a day to reach lomor the moment had come to pull the anchor and leave but I sat fearing the long journey ahead of us committing to this moment had been eating away at me I wanted to embrace it but almost sinking a new found oil leak and the constant storms have left me exhausted and drained of [Music] confidence I'd never really felt like this before I knew deep down we could do it and I wanted to prove it to myself but I was scared to let go the weather had been Relentless and unpredictable and I knew once we left there would be no turning [Music] back okay [Applause] [Music] a where we are that's where are we going to go here here that looks like we beginning smash we're going to be up here he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey Granny can you hear me how you doing yeah yeah I'm doing all right how are you doing yeah pretty well pretty well we've covered a bit of ground oh I was expecting you to say that you you've Fallen overboard uh not not yet anyway look it's just so good to hear your voice and and know that you're you're still safe and and and everything yeah crying I'm nearly crying just with the relief of of being able to hear a little bit I I'll say goodbye now I think you're cutting out a bit all righty I'll let you know when we get to the other side love you [Music] gr I'd had myself so worked up and nervous about this last leg but despite the rough start we had been gifted with a beautiful run of open ocean weather it took us 19 days of traveling around the clock to cover 1300 miles the constant 3-hour watch shifts melted our days and nights together as we rounded the Southeastern tip of java and made our way across the North Coast of barley on our final stretch to lumbo we were suddenly surrounded by boats and New [Music] Life from the sea we could smell incense and the sweet AR moments of fresh [Music] food after so many days and nights of watching The Horizon the idea of Life on land felt both familiar and strangely [Music] foreign [Music] 7 miles to [Music] go I mean a year of like failing to get here and we're here what a trick I'm going to cry I I thought we were going to die we're not there yet we're not there yet [Music] as we closed in on our final miles we were struck with the emotions of our journey coming to an end and as we approached lombok and the first Marina we'd seen in nearly 11 months we had the sudden realization that we've never actually doed a boat on our own there it is oh my God wait is that it I don't know is that what a marina looks [Music] [Music] like okay pull up to the door okay I need a little more instruction like I've never done this before but um actually we need to put a line here and a line here right okay thank you so much we did it what you do [Music] that [Music] up to nearly 12 mes and over 5,000 nautical miles our journey on cypi had come to an end traveling on the ocean required us to live and move in harmony with the world around [Music] us the wind the waves and the currents had influenced every aspect of our existence and it put a few things in perspective for me life is short and precious it demand that we slow down take things one step at a time and move through this world with love and an open mind our biggest challenges always resulted in the greatest rewards not always immediately but eventually I learned and accepted that it is okay to not always be in control and in fact I found it empowering and exhilarating living at the power of Mother Nature and the mercy of a that has a mind of its own throughout this journey the ocean gave us so much and it is impossible to come away from this without feeling compelled to respect protect and give back to our ocean [Music] home this whole experience was truly a gift I will be forever grateful for the people that imparted their knowledge to us and helped us on this journey and for the amazing people that we met along the [Music] way and to my love Ayana I know I wouldn't have had the courage and strength to continue on this journey if it wasn't for you thank you for sharing this dream with [Music] me [Music]

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Length: 88min 55sec (5335 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 04 2023