This Is Why We sail | S3 Ep 5

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After riding out the swell from Storm Senyar in a sheltered channel in the southern Natuna Islands, we woke up to calm water and a new problem — fuel.

With the storm now moving away we expected several days of light winds ahead, and after the previous passages we were running dangerously low. Just across the water we spotted what looked like a small floating fuel station — a fishing boat tied to a pontoon with a hut above it and a pipe leading down to several large drums.

So we loaded the jerry cans into the dinghy and headed ashore to investigate.

The fuel mission turned out to be a com...