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As a born Nederlander, I would say "Batavia" the way you have. As to the explorer "Houtman," you are going "hootman." I think it would be closer to "Howtman." Amazing how many Dutch names and terms have survived the centuries in your biggish part of the world. And Amazing how persistent you two are in your circumnavigation, given the hurdles you have had to overcome. Cheers!
Awesome! And oopsies for the Houtman pronunciation...Yes, they made a serious impact in the history books! Pretty incredible stuff. And cheers, always just gotta push through! 😁
The cool thing about crays is you can keep them alive for extended time and do not need to use your fridge. So, a boatload of Crays before a passage would be really good ! There is a 23 episode of Batavia on TH-cam ! It isn't acted, but read, with lots of illustrations. Absolutely beautiful video, Amazing , Thankyou !
I am so happy to see you again! As a newer subscriber, I have been binge watching past episodes. You both and Myles have won my heart. Your happiness and optimistic mindset are inspiring. I hope to see your beautiful country one day. I look forward to the next episode.
As a Hollander I loved the Batavia story. I knew about it but for you both to actually be there on the island and tell us more made it that much more real. You are amazing story tellers. Keep them coming!
Cool! We haven't heard of that one but we will have a look into it. The only reason we read the Peter Fitzsimons' Batavia is because it was given to us by a friend. Otherwise, I don't even think we'd known the story existed 😅
Yummy, I miss our cray fishing days tho we used drop pots, as not good at diving. We owned our own boat, which , needed. The story of the Batavia mutiny and the coins discovered on the ship, everyone that could dive ,scored. Well narrated
Hi Soph and Slim, just a quick word from the city of Gouda - Netherlands (yes, from the cheese). The brothers 'Frederik and Cornelis de Houtman' where born here, just a couple of 100 meters from our house, history is sometimes so far away and also so closeby. We have a nice statue in the park over here. Keep up your channel - we really love it! Frank Jan and Yvonne
I am subscribed Slim and thoroughly enjoying the West coast episodes. Popcorn crayfish eh? That made me salivate. Keep up the great work. See you in Fremantle.
Great story, thanks for the education. That lobster cook looked like a ton of fun. Glad you guys got a break and some socializing. Thanks for the video!
Fascinating story of the islands . I have recently read about Matthew flinders and George bass and their circumnavigation of Australia ( 1798 circa) I am finding your Vlogs on of your voyage just as intriguing and fascinating. I sailed the world on merchant vessels but never reached the antipodes. Keep the TH-cam videos coming
Slim and Soph - this was an EPIC episode ! I LOVE the history ! When I was in Tonga many years ago I bought a book that was essentially Captain Cook's logs of his time there and it was absolutely fascinating.... I have already ordered Fitzsimons book on Amazon and I am really looking forward to reading it. Brutality on the open seas was just a fact of life back in the day - I don't relish that but it sure makes for interesting reading... Thank you both for being such spectacular humans and providing me and so many others with a window into your lives... I SO wish I could be doing what you do. Take care and be safe ! Fair winds and moderate swells through WA ;-)
Wooohooo! So so so glad you enjoyed it! Hope you enjoy the read, it's truly fascinating and gruesome stuff! Cheers legend, appreciate your kind words and we're looking forward to sharing the next one with you!
Just drove from Perth to Broome and back down the western coast in a big loop. I can say that the wild coast is what you Aussies say is heaps better than the interior route by road. Love the channel. All the best from the US
Oh awesome!! Sounds like an epic trip! I think if we were to do it again it would be by road along the coast 😅 Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos! Cheers!
What a great video. Incredible tales/tails from history and the Crays. I look forward to seeing you next week. I always enjoy your efforts to produce interesting vlogs while studying for your Degrees.
Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it! We're about 90% sure we found the well, however, there was no water in it at the time so we didn't include it in case we weren't correct😊 Cheers for tuning in, appreciate it 😊
Such excellent story telling Soph. Your uni studies might be in lost with this great skill you have and are developing. Thank you both for taking us on a journey with beauty, adventure and learning.
Aweeee, thanks so much. Really glad you enjoyed it! And appreciate your kind feedback. You never know how it's going to hit, so I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the watch🥰
Congratulations and thank you for an incredible insight into the history of this area. Oh, those crays! I assume there are rules around how many you can take. A book you may be interested in perusing is one called "The Savage Shore" by Graham Seal. He gives a good insight into early maritime voyages of discovery to Australia (back in the days when Australia was known as "Southland"). Cheers and safe travels.
So glad you enjoyed the story. Yes, there is a bag limit for crays, it's 8 per license holder. The max we ever took in one day was 3. We only ever take what we need for one day 😊 Awesome, we will have a look into it! Cheers!
Reading the Batavia book, I've nearly got to Cape Town. Under impressed with the author's grasp of the maritime stuff so far but he's spinning the human story well. See how it goes with the mutiny, wreck & sex slavery! Keep up the good work! Mike
If youre reading the Peter Fitzsimmons book, put it down and get almost any other historian's book on the subject. Fitzsimmons is a former international rugby player who now does sports journalism and dabbles in writing books. But his writing is bloody awful and he's no historian. Im not sure what historian's book I have on this subject - Id have to search my shelves - but the version I have is great.
Thanks so much guys.Love your channel .Renovating a 1985 30 foot Miura and you give me hope to be brave and just go for it.Once again thanks and keep up the good work .😀
Thank you Slim and Soph. A great episode. As we do boat jobs before heading on our next adventure, we love the way you are able to share with such generosity and skill.
Thanks so much! So glad you're enjoying the videos. Hope the boat jobs are going well! 😊 We know exactly what you're going through, the adventure will make it all worth while 🙌
An other cracking episode guy's , love the intro to the history of the first Europeans to discover Australia. so envious of all the crays that you dined on, oh I'm pretty sure that would have been Thousands of $'s worth of cray's and that excluding the setting.
Cheers! Yes, we are certainly lucky that we can access an abundance of fresh crayfish, although we've poured thousands into the boat, you seem to forget about that. The saying that sailing is the most expensive way to get somewhere for free is truly bang on 😂
❤ Brilliant! Thank you for the history lesson. Hey! Key West Waterman channel took the week off and published a daily series about spearfishing! Not that you two are novices, you're legends! Just remember... there's always something more clever than yourself. 😉 Much ❤ and respect from Central Texas. ✌️❤️🚀🤠 ⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️
Awesome vid, what a brilliant adventure. Those crayfish look absolutely delicious. It's fantastic when good people team up & become friends while adventuring around the planet. I used to live in Oz, always dreamt of returning by yacht from England's south coast.
Wonderful video and great summary of a great story. But you’re right, there’s so much more to it. Hope you stayed inside the catch limits for the crays there. The fines are horrendous for going over them. Including forfeiture of your boat!
Hey guys. Great episode. Where RU in real time now? Just now looking outside and the weather is terrible atm (Just South of Perth). Hope you are tucked away somewhere safe. M
Slim and Soph, we love you and enjoyed your expedition to the shipwrecked island!!! Slim we’re also very glad to see you using sunblock!!!! Your face is too cute to have it get cut up due to cancer! Take care and look forward to more of your adventures
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it. Hehe, don't worry about Slim, he reapplies sunscreen like a thousand times a day 😂 He's pretty onto it. Cheers, see you next time!
We have not been jealous once watching you guys getting bashed by the west coast - until now. We read Fitzsimons' excellent book when it was released and would love to walk those islands like you did. Thanks for doing it for us. Cheers!
Haha, these are the rewarding moments that you truly have to soak in so when sh*t's hitting the fan and we want to sell the boat, we reflect on those awesome moments with friends eating fresh crays and it's gets us through 🙌
Slim & Soph this was an excellent video history lesson. Very Very interesting. And wow all those cray fish and also looked like a lot of eatable fish in the water also. The big cook up you had at the end made me hungry. You seemed to have a great bunch of sailer friends amongst you. Cheers catch you next video. And yea that Wallaby was cute. Do they have teeth and would they bite if they were cornered so to speak. I googled this "People who make the choice that the only red meat they eat will be wallaby, based on all the ethics behind it." A spokesperson for the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia says kangaroo meat, including wallaby meat, is one of the "healthiest and most sustainable red meats in the world".Jun 18, 2023 Catch you next video
Thanks legend, glad you enjoyed the story! Yes lots of fish in the water, unfortunately, while we were there there was a demersal fin fish closure so we couldn't take any fish although it wasn't terrible only having to eat crayfish 😅 And yep, super fortunate we found a great group of people here, it truly keeps you going having a sense of camaraderie around you 😊 Cheers legend, catch you next time!
Sailboat - A machine lost in time and forever timeless... A modern device still dependent on the principles of levers, mechanical advantage, and block and tackle... equipment more appropriate to the building of a pyramid than the moving of a yacht.
I caught a glimpse of a dirt landing strip that looked suitable for a bush plane at 22:33 on the upper left. It must be comforting to know you could still summon emergency services if necessary.
Interesting you say that; as over the radio, in our time there, we heard a horrific injury had taken place on a commercial boat of one of the nearby islands. The injured person was in fact airlifted to the mainland within a matter of hours
PROBABLY THE PROBLEM WAS MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE ON THAT SHIP 400 YEARS AGO COULDN'T SWIM SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN JUST HOW MUCH FOOD WAS UNDERWATER
That was quite an informative history lesson. I have a question: Does Nakama use AIS? We had a look to see if we could follow your journey across the bottom of Australia, but the only Nakama sailing vessel showing up over the last few weeks says it's moored near Hobart. We wish you fair winds and pleasant skies. ⛵️
The story is a little more complex. The Netherlands at the time had been at war with Spain for about a century. It would continue to be at war with Spain for another century, because the Netherlands - through a series of complicated intermarriages - belonged to the Spanish crown. But the Netherlands became a protestant "state" and Spain was - famously - the home of the Inquisition, resulting in a series of vicious wars tinged with religious zealotry on both sides. To make it a little worse, the Netherlands (a bit like Switzerland) were actually a series of small and not always co-operative states and each of the rulers of these cantons had slightly different protestant religious views. On top of that the staunchly catholic French were constantly invading to take control of valuable territory. The great war of the counter-reformation - the 30 years war - had erupted in 1618 and the whole of Europe was entangled in a religious war that would eventually turn into war for the sake of war, with massive mercenary armies roaming all over central Europe destroying as they went. But that would be the most destructive war in European history, including compared to both world wars. In that climate, the Netherlands had become a hotbed of protestant religious kookiness and fervour that the various rulers of the states of the Netherlands found hard to control. Much like modern USA many many cultlike christian sects had sprung up all over the Netherlands. Most of them were tolerated - barely - but some of them, even the tolerant Dutch found so heretical that they had outlawed them and the punishment for adhering to such beliefs was death. Jerome Cornelius was one such adherent and the reason he was on the ship to the Dutch east indies was to escape that punishment. The particular train of religious thought he adhered to was one that taught that any act done on earth - no matter how apparently bad - was okay by god because otherwise god wouldn't have permitted it to be done. You can see why the Dutch authorities had a problem with that belief. To make it worse, Cornelius was from a family of rank but had fallen on hard times, so he also had a chip on his shoulder, which had driven his animosity towards the Batavia's top officers during the voyage. And that was the mindset that Cornelius - and others aboard the Batavia, crucially including most of the low ranking ship's officers and a number of the crew - brought to the Abrolhos islands on the morning the Batavia ran aground there. It was that belief system, and the intention of putting it into effect, that drove the subsequent appalling events on the islands. Its also why the Dutch pastor and his wife and daughters were targeted so brutally. It may sound bizarre, but at all times during these events, Cornelius sincerely believed he was doing his god's will. The wreck of the batavia isnt a simple story of people behaving badly under terrible pressure; Its an object lesson in what happens when reason is overcome by misguided beliefs. ps Peter fitzsimon's book about the Batavia is awful. He's not a historian and he's not even a good writer. Dont read that one. Pretty much any other book on this subject is way better. As a western australian I was outright offended by Fitzsimon's book on the Batavia and never got far into it.
You have the correct pronunciation: Batahvia (I am dutch). and Houtman would be pronounced as the guy below suggested but I would add that it's a hard 'n: Howtmann
We are 90% sure we found the well, but it was dry at the time did not include the footage as we were not 100% sure, there is a museum in Perth that has all sorts of amazing finds from shipwrecks along the coast including the batavia that we will be checking out in videos to come
finding lobster here is no secret, infact many of the islands are full of commercial fishermans shanty shacks, the Abrolhos region is home to i would say arguably one of biggest if not the biggest commercial crayfishing fleets in Australia. The crays just one of those commercial boats takes in ten minutes would be more than all us sailors took all week. Being a commercial cray fishery for over 100 years, its safe to say that words has been out that there are crays here for a while😂 and it doesnt seem like the population is struggling either.
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As a born Nederlander, I would say "Batavia" the way you have. As to the explorer "Houtman," you are going "hootman." I think it would be closer to "Howtman." Amazing how many Dutch names and terms have survived the centuries in your biggish part of the world. And Amazing how persistent you two are in your circumnavigation, given the hurdles you have had to overcome. Cheers!
Awesome! And oopsies for the Houtman pronunciation...Yes, they made a serious impact in the history books! Pretty incredible stuff. And cheers, always just gotta push through! 😁
@johnkabel285, research Dirk Hartog and other lost Dutch sailors from our West Coast. 😊
The cool thing about crays is you can keep them alive for extended time and do not need to use your fridge. So, a boatload of Crays before a passage would be really good ! There is a 23 episode of Batavia on TH-cam ! It isn't acted, but read, with lots of illustrations. Absolutely beautiful video, Amazing , Thankyou !
For sure! Although I'm not too sure where we would keep alive crayfish on board 😅
Glad you enjoyed the video legend, appreciate it as always!!
It is Batavia, as you say it. Cheers, Jeroen from Holland (Batavia)
@@jeroenvanraalten372 amazing! I needed a Dutch to confirm this for me! 😁
Really top episode, love the story of the mutiny, also love the cray feast with salty mates. Thank you.❤
Cheers legend! Certainly the best thing about boat life, love meeting all the definitely people on boats😊
I am so happy to see you again! As a newer subscriber, I have been binge watching past episodes. You both and Myles have won my heart. Your happiness and optimistic mindset are inspiring. I hope to see your beautiful country one day. I look forward to the next episode.
Woohoo! That's awesome to hear!! So glad to have you following along, we really hope you enjoy past and present videos! See you next time🥰
@@SlimandSophSailingNakama I love them and look forward to what comes next! I also have followed you guys and Myles on Instagram. ✌️ ❤️
Also, for Slim, tight lines. 😃
As a Hollander I loved the Batavia story. I knew about it but for you both to actually be there on the island and tell us more made it that much more real. You are amazing story tellers. Keep them coming!
'Islands of Angry Ghosts' by Hugh Edwards is the go to book on the Batavia.
He was on the team that found the wreck and is a excellent author.
Cool! We haven't heard of that one but we will have a look into it. The only reason we read the Peter Fitzsimons' Batavia is because it was given to us by a friend. Otherwise, I don't even think we'd known the story existed 😅
Yummy, I miss our cray fishing days tho we used drop pots, as not good at diving. We owned our own boat, which , needed. The story of the Batavia mutiny and the coins discovered on the ship, everyone that could dive ,scored. Well narrated
Another amazing vid Slim & Soph . So jelly of the lobby feed ! Enjoy that beautiful part of the world and thank you for sharing !
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Soph and Slim, just a quick word from the city of Gouda - Netherlands (yes, from the cheese). The brothers 'Frederik and Cornelis de Houtman' where born here, just a couple of 100 meters from our house, history is sometimes so far away and also so closeby. We have a nice statue in the park over here. Keep up your channel - we really love it! Frank Jan and Yvonne
That's incredible! Wow! And so glad to hear you're enjoying the channel, glad to have you along for the ride!😁
I am subscribed Slim and thoroughly enjoying the West coast episodes. Popcorn crayfish eh? That made me salivate. Keep up the great work. See you in Fremantle.
Thanks for subscribing! Appreciate it 😊 So good! Can't wait to have it again!
Amazing episode. You guys are great storytellers. I bought the book. Thank you so much!
Awesome! hope you love it as much as we did!
Great story, thanks for the education. That lobster cook looked like a ton of fun. Glad you guys got a break and some socializing. Thanks for the video!
Cheers! So glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoying your journey. Hope that maybe I'll meet you both in Hobart at the beginning of January. Safe sailing. John
So glad to hear that! Cheers!
Fascinating story of the islands . I have recently read about Matthew flinders and George bass and their circumnavigation of Australia ( 1798 circa) I am finding your Vlogs on of your voyage just as intriguing and fascinating. I sailed the world on merchant vessels but never reached the antipodes. Keep the TH-cam videos coming
Thanks so much! That's awesome! So glad to hear you're enjoying the videos😊
Slim and Soph - this was an EPIC episode ! I LOVE the history ! When I was in Tonga many years ago I bought a book that was essentially Captain Cook's logs of his time there and it was absolutely fascinating.... I have already ordered Fitzsimons book on Amazon and I am really looking forward to reading it. Brutality on the open seas was just a fact of life back in the day - I don't relish that but it sure makes for interesting reading... Thank you both for being such spectacular humans and providing me and so many others with a window into your lives... I SO wish I could be doing what you do. Take care and be safe ! Fair winds and moderate swells through WA ;-)
Wooohooo! So so so glad you enjoyed it! Hope you enjoy the read, it's truly fascinating and gruesome stuff! Cheers legend, appreciate your kind words and we're looking forward to sharing the next one with you!
Just drove from Perth to Broome and back down the western coast in a big loop. I can say that the wild coast is what you Aussies say is heaps better than the interior route by road. Love the channel. All the best from the US
Oh awesome!! Sounds like an epic trip! I think if we were to do it again it would be by road along the coast 😅 Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos! Cheers!
What a great video. Incredible tales/tails from history and the Crays. I look forward to seeing you next week. I always enjoy your efforts to produce interesting vlogs while studying for your Degrees.
Cheers! hahah, all sorts of great tales/tails! 😂 So glad you enjoy the videos, see you next time
Great video/ music!
Amazing history.
Did you find the water source?
Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it! We're about 90% sure we found the well, however, there was no water in it at the time so we didn't include it in case we weren't correct😊 Cheers for tuning in, appreciate it 😊
Awesome ep! The Batavia info was super interesting, you guys doing an amazing job with your vids & looking foward to many more.
Safe travels!
Cheers! So glad you enjoyed it and appreciate your kind feedback! See you next time!
Such excellent story telling Soph. Your uni studies might be in lost with this great skill you have and are developing. Thank you both for taking us on a journey with beauty, adventure and learning.
Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it! We're glad to have you along for the journey!
Love you kids! Thanks for the history lesson. Lobster, yum! Safe travels. ❤
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed!
Soph your videos are typically good in this one you outdid yourself
You made a"clear winner"
Aweeee, thanks so much. Really glad you enjoyed it! And appreciate your kind feedback. You never know how it's going to hit, so I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the watch🥰
What a stunning story, you are so lovely.
Don’t know why your channel ended up in my feed, but what an amazing story. I think I’ll keep watching. See what else you guys have to offer.
Welcome aboard mate
I get so excited when you post a new video!
I trust you are both well and uni is going as planed!
We're so glad to hear!! Uni is going well! Almost there with it 🙌
Excellent utube video.. it was a very compelling story of the Batavia, and seeing the remains on the island. I'm going to read the book!
Congratulations and thank you for an incredible insight into the history of this area. Oh, those crays! I assume there are rules around how many you can take. A book you may be interested in perusing is one called "The Savage Shore" by Graham Seal. He gives a good insight into early maritime voyages of discovery to Australia (back in the days when Australia was known as "Southland").
Cheers and safe travels.
So glad you enjoyed the story. Yes, there is a bag limit for crays, it's 8 per license holder. The max we ever took in one day was 3. We only ever take what we need for one day 😊 Awesome, we will have a look into it! Cheers!
That was a really great episode
Thanks so much!
Hey guy's thanks for another awesome episode and for bringing me along with you on this epic adventure of yours
Hey Danny! Glad you enjoyed the video, and cheers for tuning in as always, so glad we have you along for the ride!
Reading the Batavia book, I've nearly got to Cape Town. Under impressed with the author's grasp of the maritime stuff so far but he's spinning the human story well. See how it goes with the mutiny, wreck & sex slavery! Keep up the good work! Mike
If youre reading the Peter Fitzsimmons book, put it down and get almost any other historian's book on the subject. Fitzsimmons is a former international rugby player who now does sports journalism and dabbles in writing books. But his writing is bloody awful and he's no historian. Im not sure what historian's book I have on this subject - Id have to search my shelves - but the version I have is great.
We found it was a bit of a slow start due to the backstory needed, but once things start unfolding we were hooked! Hope you enjoy it
@@tileuxPalsearts account is more factual and interesting. Peter's writing is a drudge.
Thanks so much guys.Love your channel .Renovating a 1985 30 foot Miura and you give me hope to be brave and just go for it.Once again thanks and keep up the good work .😀
Our pleasure! and You can do it!
Fun episode. Made me hungry!
haha, cheers! Us too watching it back!
Another Krackin Episode as per usual. Such a barren place but beautiful in it's own right
An abundance of Crays, what a feast
Cheers
Cheers Stevo!
Fascinating story & a great episode ❤❤
So glad you enjoyed it!
Rippa guy's, thanx for sharing
Cheers!
Excellent episode!! Cheers!
Cheers! So glad you enjoyed😁
Nice to find your channel
Awesome! Hope you enjoy the videos!
Thank you Slim and Soph. A great episode. As we do boat jobs before heading on our next adventure, we love the way you are able to share with such generosity and skill.
Thanks so much! So glad you're enjoying the videos. Hope the boat jobs are going well! 😊 We know exactly what you're going through, the adventure will make it all worth while 🙌
What a great life you guys have! And what a story about the Batavia!
An other cracking episode guy's , love the intro to the history of the first Europeans to discover Australia. so envious of all the crays that you dined on, oh I'm pretty sure that would have been Thousands of $'s worth of cray's and that excluding the setting.
Cheers! Yes, we are certainly lucky that we can access an abundance of fresh crayfish, although we've poured thousands into the boat, you seem to forget about that. The saying that sailing is the most expensive way to get somewhere for free is truly bang on 😂
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Brilliant! Thank you for the history lesson.
Hey! Key West Waterman channel took the week off and published a daily series about spearfishing!
Not that you two are novices, you're legends!
Just remember... there's always something more clever than yourself. 😉
Much ❤ and respect from Central Texas.
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Cheers! So glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate your comment🙌
@@SlimandSophSailingNakama Cheers! 🍻
You're most welcome!
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Awesome mateys. Great history lesson😊
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it!
Shout out to Miles. Great job. 🫡
🦞 cookout with your mates. 👏
Thanks for sharing.
Woo! Haha, cheers legend
Awesome vid, what a brilliant adventure. Those crayfish look absolutely delicious. It's fantastic when good people team up & become friends while adventuring around the planet.
I used to live in Oz, always dreamt of returning by yacht from England's south coast.
Love it ❤
Awesome!
Thanks Soph and Slim you make our Sunday mornings so refreshing down in the deep south of East Gippsland the retirees capitol of Victoria.
Cheers legend! So glad to hear that we can bring some entertainment to you on a Sunday! WOO
I read this a long time ago, it's so cool to see it for the first time and it looking exactly like I imagined it
Great narrative! Loved the weave of history with the present. And those crays …. 🎉😊
Wonderful video and great summary of a great story. But you’re right, there’s so much more to it. Hope you stayed inside the catch limits for the crays there. The fines are horrendous for going over them. Including forfeiture of your boat!
Well and truly under, bag limit is 8 per day, we took a max of three in a day🙂
Hi from Sweden! 😄
Hi!! Thanks for tuning in!
Great story telling keep up the great work love the videos. Cheers from Canada!!!!
Cheers!
Hey guys. Great episode. Where RU in real time now? Just now looking outside and the weather is terrible atm (Just South of Perth). Hope you are tucked away somewhere safe. M
Well done. Thanks for sharing the story of the Batavia. Great episode. Cheers!
Cheers! So glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much for such an awesome video. Love the Batavia story and cant wait to share it with family xx
Slim and Soph, we love you and enjoyed your expedition to the shipwrecked island!!!
Slim we’re also very glad to see you using sunblock!!!! Your face is too cute to have it get cut up due to cancer! Take care and look forward to more of your adventures
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it. Hehe, don't worry about Slim, he reapplies sunscreen like a thousand times a day 😂 He's pretty onto it. Cheers, see you next time!
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We have not been jealous once watching you guys getting bashed by the west coast - until now. We read Fitzsimons' excellent book when it was released and would love to walk those islands like you did. Thanks for doing it for us. Cheers!
Thanks so much, guys! yeah if you ever get the chance you certainly will not be disappointed
Very cool video. Thank you for sharing such an incredible adventure. 🤠
Great stuff as always 😎.
Thank you! Cheers!
What a struggle! Having to survive on crayfish, cooked every which-way. It’s a rough life, but someone has to do it!
Haha, these are the rewarding moments that you truly have to soak in so when sh*t's hitting the fan and we want to sell the boat, we reflect on those awesome moments with friends eating fresh crays and it's gets us through 🙌
great underwater footage at 15:23 !
Slim & Soph this was an excellent video history lesson. Very Very interesting. And wow all those cray fish and also looked like a lot of eatable fish in the water also. The big cook up you had at the end made me hungry. You seemed to have a great bunch of sailer friends amongst you. Cheers catch you next video. And yea that Wallaby was cute. Do they have teeth and would they bite if they were cornered so to speak.
I googled this
"People who make the choice that the only red meat they eat will be wallaby, based on all the ethics behind it." A spokesperson for the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia says kangaroo meat, including wallaby meat, is one of the "healthiest and most sustainable red meats in the world".Jun 18, 2023
Catch you next video
Thanks legend, glad you enjoyed the story! Yes lots of fish in the water, unfortunately, while we were there there was a demersal fin fish closure so we couldn't take any fish although it wasn't terrible only having to eat crayfish 😅 And yep, super fortunate we found a great group of people here, it truly keeps you going having a sense of camaraderie around you 😊 Cheers legend, catch you next time!
Aussie couple doing it right . . . good on ya! Love your videos
Most awesome, I’m trying to catch up.
😀😀👍👍❤❤ Thank you both. Great editing as always, indeed!
Thanks so much! Always appreciate it😊
Excellent video thank for sharing the great story
Sailboat - A machine lost in time and forever timeless... A modern device still dependent on the principles of levers, mechanical advantage, and block and tackle... equipment more appropriate to the building of a pyramid than the moving of a yacht.
I caught a glimpse of a dirt landing strip that looked suitable for a bush plane at 22:33 on the upper left. It must be comforting to know you could still summon emergency services if necessary.
Interesting you say that; as over the radio, in our time there, we heard a horrific injury had taken place on a commercial boat of one of the nearby islands. The injured person was in fact airlifted to the mainland within a matter of hours
Brilliant episode. Maybe you should get some royalties from the book sales because you've inspired me to go buy a copy!
We had an Amazon link but they were sold out there I think 😂 Hope you enjoy the read!
I love you guys! Be safe out there you two
After reading the book, thank you for sharing this story.
Brilliant....
Cheers!
PROBABLY THE PROBLEM WAS MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE ON THAT SHIP 400 YEARS AGO COULDN'T SWIM SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN JUST HOW MUCH FOOD WAS UNDERWATER
Sahara's wallaby taste❤😊😊
That was quite an informative history lesson.
I have a question: Does Nakama use AIS? We had a look to see if we could follow your journey across the bottom of Australia, but the only Nakama sailing vessel showing up over the last few weeks says it's moored near Hobart.
We wish you fair winds and pleasant skies. ⛵️
Great episode guys
slim get ya self a sun hoody, brilliant worn with a cap to keep sun off.
Ahoy Slim & Soph, great work. If you think the wallaby is cute wait to you get to see the Quokka's at Rottnest (Rat nest named by the Dutch also)
Hehe, yes the Quokkas are so awesome 😀
So where was the water found, and why was it there? That is the important part of the survival, and story.
Loved it!!
The wallabies are called Tammar "Taymar" a small wallaby species. Tammar's are also on Garden island south side of Perth
Cheers for the heads up!
good food, good friends, good times. keep it up
Been fascinated by the Batavia, since I learnt about in 80s
Love it, good work 👍
Cheers!!
Well done guys.
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Cheers legend
The story is a little more complex. The Netherlands at the time had been at war with Spain for about a century. It would continue to be at war with Spain for another century, because the Netherlands - through a series of complicated intermarriages - belonged to the Spanish crown. But the Netherlands became a protestant "state" and Spain was - famously - the home of the Inquisition, resulting in a series of vicious wars tinged with religious zealotry on both sides. To make it a little worse, the Netherlands (a bit like Switzerland) were actually a series of small and not always co-operative states and each of the rulers of these cantons had slightly different protestant religious views. On top of that the staunchly catholic French were constantly invading to take control of valuable territory. The great war of the counter-reformation - the 30 years war - had erupted in 1618 and the whole of Europe was entangled in a religious war that would eventually turn into war for the sake of war, with massive mercenary armies roaming all over central Europe destroying as they went. But that would be the most destructive war in European history, including compared to both world wars.
In that climate, the Netherlands had become a hotbed of protestant religious kookiness and fervour that the various rulers of the states of the Netherlands found hard to control. Much like modern USA many many cultlike christian sects had sprung up all over the Netherlands. Most of them were tolerated - barely - but some of them, even the tolerant Dutch found so heretical that they had outlawed them and the punishment for adhering to such beliefs was death.
Jerome Cornelius was one such adherent and the reason he was on the ship to the Dutch east indies was to escape that punishment. The particular train of religious thought he adhered to was one that taught that any act done on earth - no matter how apparently bad - was okay by god because otherwise god wouldn't have permitted it to be done. You can see why the Dutch authorities had a problem with that belief. To make it worse, Cornelius was from a family of rank but had fallen on hard times, so he also had a chip on his shoulder, which had driven his animosity towards the Batavia's top officers during the voyage.
And that was the mindset that Cornelius - and others aboard the Batavia, crucially including most of the low ranking ship's officers and a number of the crew - brought to the Abrolhos islands on the morning the Batavia ran aground there. It was that belief system, and the intention of putting it into effect, that drove the subsequent appalling events on the islands. Its also why the Dutch pastor and his wife and daughters were targeted so brutally. It may sound bizarre, but at all times during these events, Cornelius sincerely believed he was doing his god's will. The wreck of the batavia isnt a simple story of people behaving badly under terrible pressure; Its an object lesson in what happens when reason is overcome by misguided beliefs.
ps Peter fitzsimon's book about the Batavia is awful. He's not a historian and he's not even a good writer. Dont read that one. Pretty much any other book on this subject is way better. As a western australian I was outright offended by Fitzsimon's book on the Batavia and never got far into it.
Couldn’t agree more about Fitzsimons. Islands of Angry Ghosts and The Secret Diary Of Lucretia Van Der Mylen are much better accounts.
You have the correct pronunciation: Batahvia (I am dutch). and Houtman would be pronounced as the guy below suggested but I would add that it's a hard 'n: Howtmann
thankyou !
Did anyone ever find the the loot from the ship? I heard it was silver. Did you ever find the water on the island?
We are 90% sure we found the well, but it was dry at the time did not include the footage as we were not 100% sure, there is a museum in Perth that has all sorts of amazing finds from shipwrecks along the coast including the batavia that we will be checking out in videos to come
@@SlimandSophSailingNakama Cool. I'm looking forward to seeing that video.
Now that you've broadcast the plentifulness of lobsters in the area, they'll all be extinct by next year. Good job!
finding lobster here is no secret, infact many of the islands are full of commercial fishermans shanty shacks, the Abrolhos region is home to i would say arguably one of biggest if not the biggest commercial crayfishing fleets in Australia. The crays just one of those commercial boats takes in ten minutes would be more than all us sailors took all week.
Being a commercial cray fishery for over 100 years, its safe to say that words has been out that there are crays here for a while😂 and it doesnt seem like the population is struggling either.
Ba Tay Via - Tay as in Hay.
Tyvm
It’s an amazing story and it’s said 2 were put ashore near Kalbarri and the DNA of local inhabitants of the time is another story 🙏🤙
Yes! How interesting, wish we could have delved into it more but it would have turned into a 2 hour long video 😂
I saw the title and was so glad that you, Sophie was not the Sex slave! André
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Ah, by Peter Fitzsimons.
We dutch say "Bat-ah-via" so more like your "Bat-ar-via". And hout (from Houtman) is pronounced like 'cloud'.
Awesome! Oopsies! now I know for next time😅
28:17 I wanna pet it!
So cute hey!!!
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hi from uk xx
G'day
zamzam water