Video Is Now Live on YouTube! Sailing Sunday!

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Fourteen days sailing eastern Indonesia aboard Katharina, a traditional wooden phinisi — a Rare Routes voyage that departed 20 September 2026. What happened on this voyage: Swimming in a sea cave. The trip opens inside a limestone grotto, floating in clear turquoise water beneath stalactites, with daylight coming in from the mouth of the cave. A river walk to a waterfall. Travellers wade upstream through the jungle along a guide rope to a waterfall dropping into a deep green pool. Sailing under tanbark sails. Katharina is a two-masted phinisi, hand-built from wood using methods passed down through generations of Indonesian boatbuilders. She sails properly — these are not decorative sails. Paddleboarding and kayaking. Stand-up paddleboards and kayaks go out from the ship wherever conditions allow. Here that meant glassy shallows at sunset, and a morning threading through mangroves below limestone cliffs. A village welcome. Dancers in traditional dress with feathered headdresses, and an arch of raised arms and coloured scarves that everyone walking ashore had to pass through. Village visits are arranged with communities beforehand — we come as invited visitors. Ancient rock art. Red ochre paintings on a sheer limestone cliff above the water, reached by tender. Rock art of this kind across the Indonesian archipelago is thought to be thousands of years old. Traditional boats under oars. Outrigger canoes and a larger rowed vessel came out to meet the ship, flying the Indonesian flag. A local market and a cooking demonstration. Time ashore to see what grows and what gets traded, and a demonstration of roasting over an open fire in a large wok. Dinner on the beach. One long table, string lights, and everybody at it—travellers and crew together, as most evenings end. A sandbank at sunset, with Katharina at anchor offshore, and a final night in the saloon with the crew. About the Rare Routes The Rare Routes are SeaTrek’s longer voyages — twelve to sixteen days — to parts of eastern Indonesia that most itineraries skip entirely. They exist because some places can only be reached slowly, by a small ship that can anchor where larger vessels cannot. #RareRoutes #PhinisiSailing #Indonesia #ExpeditionCruise #SmallShipCruising

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Experience the thrill of landing a plane on a frozen lake! 🛬❄️ Watch as I navigate the icy runway, test the limits, and enjoy the ultimate winter adventure. Don’t miss the full video—out now! #Aviation #FrozenLakeLanding #PilotLife

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Très touché par le dessin que lui a envoyé Titouan Lamazou, Jean Le Cam (SynerCiel) a décidé de remercier son ami navigateur.

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