We Broke Up 💔 Heartbroken & Stranded at Sea. (Expedition Drenched Ep.98 Season Finale)

well the world is officially gone crazy absolutely mad when you're on a boat you feel somewhat disconnected from the broader comings and goings of the world most of the time this is exactly how we like it this however was not something we could escape from a lot of things around the world are changing fast severe border restrictions with the number of global infections exceeding half a million it all started with a weather window in the north of solomon islands we prepared silvia raised the anchor and set sail for papua new guinea full of wonder and as wild as it gets it's somewhere i've dreamt of visiting my whole life but as you can imagine things didn't go entirely to plan our bit of a pickle with very little warning we had to make some difficult choices and with much uncertainty and doubt we fled for the borders of australia amongst the uncertainty a beautiful adventure unfolded this is our week of chaos fear doubt surprise encounters and a whole lot of luck this is a story of a sailboat named sylvia and the ragtag crew that call her home join us each week as we explore our planet both above and below the surface and find out what it's really like to live a life at sea this is expedition drenched our first sunrise in papua new guinea has been quite intense because there were squalls coming the wind was changing all the time but we managed to sail almost for the whole a trip and we are just motoring in the last passage to the to our destination toward anchorage [Music] how they appear without when you came yeah let's go to a steer otherwise i don't know where we are going [Music] going in the green wishes luck woke a school of fish swimming 20 meters below us you can see every single detail oh i didn't even see back there i was like where's that coming from where's this guitars is your name jimmy you are jimmy i heard about you i heard the ass for commodore jimmy hello hello what do you think of our first visit this is jimmy who i read about commodore jimmy if you will seem very friendly and excited to see some people i doubt they get very many visitors around here so yeah that's the beauty of navionics and frankly like different uh people being able to add information in because you can say hey i anchored here this guy's really nice ask him about this we've been adding a bunch of our locations in and good dive spots and i just think that's the best way to do it somebody wrote that commodore jimmy here is a good dude so we've come to see him [Music] [Music] [Applause] quarantine flag not supposed to be here so put these up if you don't know when you come into a country you have to put the quarantine flag up we have like a papua new guinea junk coming in i know they call them or is that only indonesia i don't know but uh it's got a black sail it's like a big outrigger canoe and i think they're coming to share their anchorage with us which i'm pretty surprised because we haven't seen a soul out here so to see another boat pulling in is gonna be interesting it's got black sails that's pretty interesting kind of jealous [Music] it's a beautiful morning what i got you know that is let's beetle that i got this in the salomons before we left and we just never had the opportunity to eat all the beetle nut we wanted to but i got it on our way out because this stuff is like solid gold out here good for trading but we don't know how to do it so commodore jimmy we hope we'll uh do some beetle note with us it's got deep roots here in papua new guinea and solomon they've been doing it for hundreds of years but we'll cross those bridges when we get there for now we've got to get to them [Music] thank you [Music] we are a bit of a piho we are stuck in between worlds we are now trying to check into papua new guinea and because of the current situation of coronavirus they've kind of like locked it down so there's only a couple ports that you can this is normally one of those ports they're not allowing it at the moment or far from the other port not even plus where we're going so um they're just seeing what they can do for us and hopefully we're able to get checked in if not they might send us on our way [Music] [Music] okay you chew it or you eat it just chew it okay you swallow it spit it out okay and then what do you what do you do with these what do you do with the the line and uh you definitely do not [Music] get that fruit mustard here you okay you get it wet put it in line [Music] and then you just eat the lime and what makes it red nothing looks red you're going to read it it's going to turn red now two types of chewing the teeth students can chew the other one where you are the teachers okay so you like chew it up in that and then you just put it in your mouth okay okay how are you doing how old are most people when they start beetlenut like how old were you the first time you tried it sometime this morning okay so kids do kids do it in one day how many times do you try do you do beat on that [Music] one like one time maybe anything anytime okay it's a good time nate's a pro now it's like the advisor hmm [Music] all right we'll see you out there on the open ocean have fun ladies what do we got to do we are the chosen ones to go on a on the right we get a traditional canoe i'm excited because they looked so beautiful sailing away through on top of the river because they don't have the draft it's very rough yeah the draft is very very low like you can see that it's just above the water line and what is your name again josue joshua okay what do you call the name of the the boat how do you call the boats and does your boat have a name um sailing outrigger canoes known as salau in papua new guinea are still vital for trade fishing and transportation the canoes are built locally out of masswood trees mastwood as the name suggests is often used in the construction of boats bars and hulls unlike most sailing vessels salah do not tank instead they swap ends that bow becoming the stern keeping the outrigger permanently to windward they are built by master carvers the sails are made out of whatever is available patches of plastic sheeting or old tarps for example they are seaworthy and capable of going long distances these seylau have what is known as a balanced lug which are extremely efficient and have the advantage that they require little standing rigging to support them in enough wind sailors can sail speeds up to 18 knots [Music] [Music] bye-bye we're staying here it's crazy though like you can see the coral reefs just ahead of us like underneath us everything is it's magical we're just going on top of the reef it feels very strange to be wholesale over the top of like a wreath that's maybe a meter below us not how we do things on sofia no it must be uh very feel very good to just be able to go wherever you want you don't have to worry about anything yet well you don't have to worry about where the wreath is unless it's like sticking up out of the water you know i bet their draft is like six inches wow that's awesome that's fast you guys are so fast this thing is so fast now you want one of these hey we changed how do you say thank you in your language i don't want to give in to the hysteria that is the world right now but it is the way things are and you'll find that our videos are quite a ways behind or at least i'm hoping that by the time you see this that this is all over so right now we really feel like we're stuck in between two worlds if you've ever seen water world we feel a little bit like that we're just out here quarantined on our own little floating city being self-sufficient but uh it's really hard for us to to get an idea of how the rest of the world is handling this coronavirus outbreak at the moment they're not allowing us to check in at the moment they've asked us just to stay quarantined on the boat until they figure out what they want to do with us very friendly um and of course we've been in solomons for the last couple months we feel quite comfortable that uh we don't have it after talking with a lot of people on the sat phone as to what to do i'm not too stoked about it but we're gonna go charging into australia because i want to get there before they close the borders we're gonna go we're gonna self-isolate there we're gonna get some work done we're probably gonna pick some islands on the great barrier reef and just kind of hide out we don't really know so i just downloaded the weather on our sat phone i'm using an app that we use a lot called predictwind they have a feature that's called departure planning and it helps you see what are the differences if i leave for example this morning versus six hours from now and then six hours from now and six hours from now and it makes it quite easy to see which is pretty cool i'm gonna hit play and it's basically gonna show this is if we left this morning right here this first kind of boat and then it's showing the different routing depending on which weather model you're using we've got pretty sweet one it's going to be on our beam pretty strong wind it's going to be fast sail it's going to be a rough sale if we look it shows on the tables here and you can compare each departure so for example these days are going to be faster it's going to take us three days instead of three and a half four days and then it shows you the percent time that we'll be reaching which the first two days will be 100 um if we left the second two days we'll have some downwind as well and even our swell um sizes so like the earlier we leave the bigger swells we're going to have so we kind of have to choose between [Music] speed and comfort [Music] all right there we go easy enough yeah we do have a long wash getting ready to go through this pass and i can see breaking waves out on the horizon we are coming to the outer reef of papua new guinea and uh from there it's just open seas i think it's gonna be i think it's gonna be a good crossing [Applause] i [Music] it is seven o'clock at night and the sun is just starting to go down and we're making our way through a shipping lane and we've got big huge cargo ships about four within a few miles of us so we've got our eyes out on the horizon we've got our ais on and our meter on so we can see when they're coming and the ocean is feeling pretty majestic at the moment i have to say we're riding alongside you know probably three meter swells and the camera just doesn't show it but some of these waves are just beasts here we go three more days to go hopefully fingers crossed [Music] [Music] it's three o'clock in the morning we've been dodging ships all night and there's one that's just off our port side at about 10 o'clock and it's less than a mile away but we called him up on the radio everything's all good but it's still always a bit unnerving to see lights that close to you at night when you're under sale and they're under motor and they're much bigger than you are other than that the wind has dropped down a bit swells drop down a bit it's quite a quite a cruisy ride up here [Music] well this is it this is the end of our first season and this is our final sale and i couldn't be more happy with the way that this first season went uh the amount that i've learned about myself about the boat um i'm really i'm really happy i'm really like surprised myself to be honest with you uh this was a big undertaking to this is a custom boat full with uh little corks and things and we've come a long way almost 7 000 miles in fact um this first season and in the last nine months just the amount of connections we've had with other cultures and people and friends we've made and all of our crew that's kind of like come and gone over the season have each one of them i've learned something from and they've left some sort of impact on the project of sylvia certainly myself and as we head to australia back to really the first uh real civilization if you will uh since leaving new zealand um i'm excited it i it it's gonna feel very different it's gonna feel very fast-paced compared to what we've experienced over the last nine months especially the last couple months in solomon's anyway this project is really uh starting to shape up to to be what i had envisioned slowly but surely uh we've definitely we moved way too fast at the beginning of the season and i know that now and people told us that uh when we started they're like you're gonna go to all of those places in one season and we're like yeah why not and now i get it you know uh when we finally slow down in solomon's for four months it just everything changed it's never gonna be the same after this you know i don't think that uh it's gonna have that same uh feeling of like are we gonna make it or do we know what we're doing i feel quite comfortable now you know even on this sale you know we things break we fix them that's boat life it's not to say that it's been easy it's been hard times uh there's been rough times just wanted to to say thank you to all the crew uh from this first season they saw us in when we had no idea what we were doing we learned this thing together uh i want to say a special thank you to silvan uh who hey i couldn't ask for a better uh situation of buying a boat than this like he's now just such a good friend and for him to have not just stayed on and teach us the boat like he did but to come back in a friend role and probably coming back again soon starting this adventure in new zealand was the best thing that we could have done just the warm welcoming people of new zealand um who were just so helpful and friendly and really just put the wind in our sails before we even sailed away honestly and um of course a big big thank you to uh to jordan who is definitely um she's the brains by the operation she's she's the artiste she's a definitely a good partner in crime for this project and and i'm really glad i have her she's somebody that we can um get under yeah there's somebody that can uh roll with the punches with me for sure [Music] today is not a normal vlog it's not a um it's not an adventure this is not a scuba diving involved it's just me getting a little personal with you because i want to be i want to be genuine with our audience and i am i feel like i've been struggling with something as of late uh jordan and i as to how to articulate and to explain um i guess uh where we are at um and our relationship and uh we've had many ups and downs as of late and um for a while now actually some time ago jordan and i decided that we would as far as relationship go our separate ways which means that you don't know uh jordan and i have been dating for about five years now and um we are no longer a couple and it's been long enough that i can say that with um you know not getting emotionally upset or or anything like that because it's actually happened some time ago um so uh it's just been one of those things like um as a channel or an adventure channel we're sailing because we don't you know talk about like the inner workings of a relationship and maybe some of our new viewers maybe didn't even know that uh that we were an item unless you've been following us for years and years so um what does that mean um well i'll start with saying that uh she's not going anywhere we are going to try to continue to to do this um this art project as uh as prince which right there i'm sure that many of you might be chuckling that that wouldn't impossible but that might be um but i think yeah we're gonna give it a go and um it may not all work out that is why but we're uh we're trying our best we're still very good friends we still love each other in many ways but it's um it's gonna go our separate ways and uh maybe you've gone through something like this yourself where um you know it's really hard to let go of all you know but at the same time know me what's right so yeah it's just really hard to to be that personal it's one of the the hardest things about us having our lives on the internet is uh you know in a relationship or when something's really hard you know having to divulge that to the world if you will so put yourself in those shoes this is really an awkward situation to be in uh to say the least um but you know it's both life um it's just so hard like honestly i can't uh all these older couples that we meet there's just the two of them on a boat congratulations i don't know how you do this without killing each other uh with that said um just know that we're still very good friends and that we still very much care about each other and to just be um yeah for a long time we didn't know how we're gonna do this but on the sale i've decided you know there is no good way there is no right time it's now been months just let's be honest and um at some point i don't know if she'll want to talk about it as well but it's um it's been a mutual thing um and she said you know just tell how it is you know give us love in the comments if you could if you tell us a story about when you went through something similar we can take criticism as well for us trying to continue to live on a boat together um so we'll we'll see where this all goes um my my magic crystal ball doesn't show all but um i know i know this that that um everything's gonna be okay we both certainly want um our french project to continue we put a lot of love into this thing years of dedication hard work goes into making these weekly episodes thanks for your support guys and um back to your normally scheduled programming of adventure and sailing i suppose after four days and 550 miles i can see a stray in the distance it always feels very good to see land after such a long time of being away it's not our longest crossing ever but yeah it's still it's just such a crazy feeling to just be out in the middle of nowhere for so long and all of a sudden you're here and you made it and it feels very cool so sofia will you do coffee something else here this is canned bts on teletubbies good afternoon sir i can see you on aries your inbound now understood yes i have spoken with the regional heart master and he has asked us to designate an anchorage for your vessel it will be outside of cantabria itself next time on expedition drenched we arrive in cairns australia where we await for our quarantine instructions pirates are coming to steal this booty i'll pull my finger and pull my soul chicken blue i was like what kind of food i don't think i'm going to be in that again i'm i'm twice in rome and i'm peeling that guy how's that welcome then i'll do it three days yeah just about three days on the dot no 48 hours no no i don't know i don't i i follow up three days three yeah i think it was 48 hours two days i don't know i i i'm really super like super tired i didn't have that old what days do you think

Channel: Expedition Drenched

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Rating: 4.9051414 out of 5

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Id: s8QZiv6Z0P0

Length: 30min 52sec (1852 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021