The Calm Before the Breakdowns — Sailing Borneo’s Wild Coast | S2 Ep 78

After weeks of refit work and engine installs, we finally set sail again — slow cruising down the wild north coast of Borneo. This stretch between Kudat and Kota Kinabalu is rarely explored by sailors, dotted with tiny stilt villages, tropical islands, and jungle coastlines watched over by Mount Kinabalu — the tallest mountain in Malaysia and sacred to the local people. In this episode, we share what life is really like living off-grid at sea: catching rainwater, dodging tropical squalls, exploring by TrueKit dinghy https://truekit.net, meeting curious monkeys, and racing hermit crabs on a deserted island. It’s a quieter side of our adventure — the calm before next week’s chaos when we run out of fuel and the anchor windlass breaks! We use PredictWind https://www.predictwind.com/ for our weather routing and forecasts, helping us plan each hop safely along this wild coastline. ⚓ Watch till the end for a glimpse of that coming disaster… and a reminder of why we love this life, even when things go wrong. 00:00 Intro 00:36.Reliability of our new Nanni 01:20 Family life onboard 01:44 Sailing down the wild Borneo coast 02:37 Island anchorage 03:13 Exploring the coast - on the look out for crocs! 05:10 Life in the fishing villages 08:44 Rain catcher 10:53 Tropical squalls and pizza making 12:24 Deserted island life and hermit crab races 13:13 Next week’s disaster teaser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you'd like to support us on Patreon, our website https://www.patreon.com/SailingNV or with a one-off donation via https://ko-fi.com/sailingnv or paypal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sailingnv or if you'd like to help us buy something we need, you can check out our amazon wish list https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1G2NJ0EGJLKR0?ref_=wl_share THANK YOU!!! #SailingNV #SailingBorneo #OffGridLife