Off to a Surfers Dream Land! Mentawai Islands | Sailing Indonesia (Sailing Nandji) Ep 141

With the NEW CREW on board, we sail to a Surfers Dream Land chasing waves. The Mentawai Islands, here we come!! www.sailingnandji.com/
In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we pick up our new crew, Tash and Teebs, who are from back home in Australia. These couple of legends looked after Marley years ago when we first departed Australia bound for New Caledonia. Making them more Marley's friends than ours! Arriving to Nandji in the dark, we head out to sea on an overnight passage to the Mentawai Islands. A surfers dream land. These green horns were in for a ride as we motored out of the safety of Padang harbour under a full moon. An hour into the sail we are smoked by a heavy squall and for the rest of the night we upwind sail into the building choppy sea, strong winds and torrential rain. Welcome to the sailing life!!
Arriving to the islands after a gruelling 20 hours at sea, we head straight to where the first surf charter boats we are see are anchored and get ourselves the first little warm up surf for the trip. For the following few days we hang in the area and surf Telescopes as the strong South East trade wind is relentless. We go diving and cook ourselves a massive feast in a beach fire. This is living!
With no sailing experience, we bought a yacht, got it blue water cruising ready and set off sailing to the Pacific! We have since cruised through Vanuatu, the Solomon islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and then onto the boat yard in Malaysia to prepare for the years to come. With a new engine, we continued onto Thailand, then into Indonesia and specifically West Sumatra where we are living the island life and chasing the surf before our big crossing!
We departed Australia in July 2017 and have since explored some amazing countries, met some beautiful people and experienced so many different and diverse cultures, dived pristine reefs, surfed solo in the middle of nowhere, spent weeks at sea, dealt with storms, big waves, strong winds and had the time of our life doing it! The adventure is just beginning as we sail West with the trades around the World!
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[@WHOMEWHOYOU]

Now this was another Great Video! It had it all, Girls in Bikinis, Sailing in Rough Seas, Surfin, Beach Cookouts, Some Great Underwater Footage & My Favorite.... Lots of Screen TIme for MOLLIE The Sailing Dog !!! Love You Guys from South Florida.

[@tomharrell1954]

Girls looking fantastic! Waves looking fantastic! Motor looking fantastic! Boat looking fantastic! Dingy going great! Fire on the beach! What a tough life!!! It has taken you a while to get here! So much hard work work work. Enjoy this it is so well deserved. May your troubles be few! May your smiles be merry. And your lives be long and happy!!

[@TheMATTYD7587]

really love the shots of Marley flying down the beach and you two in the dinghy... he must love life :)

[@RogerThat1]

Jippii, new video! Thank you so much!

[@jeffslaven]

Always entertaining! Love you guys!

[@MrMelrose20]

Living the dream.... Love it

[@doug9263]

Another crazy great video in the books. Love traveling along with you guys. Keepin the adventure alive.

[@SailBeforeSunset]

Love these! They keep us going until we can sail out in a few months!

[@randygilmour]

All that hard work is coming to fruition. Nice! 😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[@Paul-ow6of]

I really enjoy your videos. So great!

[@briancazares8512]

Love this video you guy are fun, thanks for sharing look forward to seeing you all again.

[@christopherharlow5475]

Always puts a smile on me dial....Great video again guys. Marley asleep at the helm, hahaha gold!!

[@stephensheard86]

Dream day loved this episode

[@CrustyBalls007]

Nice to mix sailing ⛵️ and surfing 🏄 in a video. Happy travels guys love from England

[@jacksbackable]

Loving the honesty! 😀

[@somadevo]

Livin' the dream with close friends....not too shabby...Highest Blessings

[@manumit1394]

Love the video and music Your improved skills are showing.

[@tomhemming2139]

Keep it coming you are truly wonderful people wish I could be there. ❤🍻🍻🍻👍😎

[@henrymorgan3982]

You guys are looking the part. Hard core sailors! Aloha from Hawaii!

[@mikenewzealand4525]

What cool places !!

[@ricardodavalos4333]

Great waves, that's what living the dream looks like...good for you and thanks for sharing and thanks "you tube"! Wooohooo!!!

[@atoyot123]

You guys are so awesome!

[@davidc6510]

Great video and love the surfing. Watching Marley run on the beach in turbo sprint mode never gets old. Thanks!

[@mickhermes1925]

Most excellent, you keep the adventure going for us all! Waves, babes, clear water, and self caught fish on an exotic beach. Yeew! We all really appreciate it. You`ve made me late again!

[@waynemcphail7825]

Excellent, love the dog also.

[@craigme2583]

Love you guys, i prefer it with just you two. And run Marly run...nice editing in this one too.

[@cbooc]

Nice and Cool... God Bless

[@timothyjones6736]

👌best ep ever 👌

[@w.mozart3048]

You are blessed - you have Marley

[@robertcarkeek8391]

ya worked hard for it and ya deserve all ya can get mates, Beautiful!!

[@mikepatton1489]

I think your one of the first channels I've seen have a fire on the beach. I'm from British Columbia and that's the way it's done here.thanks for your videos

[@chrisharvey-read3554]

So glad to see you guys are doing well. Nanji really looked beautiful and had such a beautiful sheen going on. Enjoy your friends company. Greeting to you all from Barbados. Safe travels.

[@davegunton254]

Great video!

[@billvandenouden7302]

All I can say is Awesome video piece Vegas bill as always

[@fatman6121]

Done it again guys just outstanding thanks Dennis in cold old Melbourne

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Cheers Legend! Sending some sunshine to Melbourne!

[@JustMe-pp1mp]

Thanks Nandji, great video. Man, that whippet can rip it !! :-)

[@johnnyberg9008]

Wow! nice work guys! You take me with you....So much awesomeness!!! Thanks for reminding me there still is a whole lot of beauty and precious pure child-like wonder in the world! Hugs and goodness to both of you! :) Even the biggest crow-bar can't pry the the smile off my face! Peace and love! Johnny

[@lppools]

Nice work

[@carpor911]

I love the way you let the dog out.

[@johndonaldson5126]

Good one. Nice editing.

[@Buzz-Of-Craze]

damn, paradise!

[@antonianodeiana9863]

Bravissimi, ciao un saluto dalla Sardegna ( italia)

[@garysouza2277]

@14:05-14:08.....Okay, now you're just showing off the new toys... ;-)

[@micheldawes1]

Awesome episode guys! It’s great to see footage of the Ments! I am so envious of you guys and it’s not just because Bonita is such a fricken gorgeous woman! You’re living the life I wish for! It’s so amazing to see Marley at full stretch, he truly is built to run! I crossed wakes (well moored in the next marina berth!) to the sailing vessel Barrenjoey which was in your Telescopes footage (2nd day?) Good to see her still kicking round. When we bumped into her in Darwin in 1999, she was just heading up to the Ments for the first time. Barrenjoey is the name of the headland at the entrance to Broken Bay in Sydney and the Northern end of Palm Beach, which is the Northern most beach in Sydney (And only a few beaches North of where I live...) Keep up the fantastic work guys, you’re definitely making me froth hard!

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Yew! We have seen Barren Joey around quite a bit. She is still kicking strong and seems to be well booked out compared to many other charter boats in the area it appears! The ments are all time, a little thick with crowds at times but we are getting through it. Off to find some real waves in the coming days as the swell is due to pick up!! It must have been a great place here back in the 90's! If only we were born 20 years ago!! haha Cheers legend for the history!

[@Neillypoo2007]

love this episode...... maaaaaaaate. good job

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Cheers legend! Its nice to see your name on Yewtube!

[@Neillypoo2007]

@@FrothLyfeSailingNandji lol..... im just waiting for my crew invite...... :-)

[@dimab8753]

3rd one??????? Hell yeah!!!!!!!

[@jb9090]

Lack of sleep seems tough but you powered through and had a good time

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Sleep when your dead! Yew! haha

[@edsondantas7179]

Obrigado amigos e gatinhas parabéns por esta duas linda princesa linda

[@sailingnuestravida]

Nandji looks like a new boat these days! Less time pulling wrenches, more time having fun.....nice!!

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

The way cruising should be! It is a very nice feeling to be having fun and enjoying the sailing life instead of fixing things! there is still fixing, but not as much!!

[@craigme2583]

@@FrothLyfeSailingNandji and not hand over hand on the anchor chain. Omg

[@philandlyra3365]

First??? Love Nandji

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Yew!! Nice one Legend!

[@victorbitter583]

What a wave! Who needs JBay? Whoohooo. Yeeeew!

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

I need J-Bay my friend 🤔

[@000001willy]

Nice Endless Summer surfing movie. You go Frothers and to Marley the Beach Demon....man can she fly.

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

We are for sure chasing the endless summer! That Marley MAN can set the pace for sure!

[@Satorisails77]

Scopes!

[@DJSYTPage]

Good one... firing surf at telescopes... bucket list to one day get over to Sumatra / Tavarua ect... you Aussies live so close ... lucky!!! Crowded it appears. Good on ya to get some gashes on the backside!

[@bigbignourdine8627]

Etejour courage capetin Nice 😍😚⛵💑🌴🎊💐

[@sammyhudson7274]

Dam she can flat out haul azz. Love Marlie, such a beautiful doggie.

[@jonnorousseau3096]

Good on ya, Yosh, snake em mate😂😂😂, another really cool video, sweet, sit a pit for me. Safe sailing, see you in SA

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Cheers legend, I have my game snake face these days pretty dialed haha

[@jonnorousseau3096]

Yosh mate, just don't try that at J-Bay, you know what the locals can be like, but in the Mentawai's most of the surfers are on boat trips or something, not too many Indo locals surfing out there, paddle the howlies up the reef, spin around and sprint for the shoulder and you're in thick, I'm an old snake meself mate😂😂😂😂😂. What sort of quiver you got going for Indo? I'd have a couple of 6'3" channel bottoms, a 6'6" rounded pin channel bottom and maybe a 6'8" pin tail channel bottom gun for the bigger days, mind you I'm only 5'7". Sit a thick pit for me legend!! Doing some nice turns with style there mate👍👍👍 A while back on your live stream you guys, sorry Bonn, said you were anticipating being in SA by December, and also mentioned St Francis marina, personal opinion on St Francis is that it is a super tricky and exposed marina to enter and exit, and basically only really feasible in good weather with a calm sea state, it's basically half way up a rock point with the world famous Bruce's beauties breaking from just below it, and the point continues up to a rocky headland with quite a lot of reef around the area, a few chokka (squid) boats have ended up on the bricks, and a few crew have lost their lives. You will battle to enter and exit about 3 days a week for sure, it's also pricy and the nearest place you might be able to rent a vehicle is in Humansdorp which is about 30 odd KM away, also it will be peak season and accommodation will be expensive and scarce. I'll email you some more detailed information and as per previous email my home is your home, and I'd be delighted to host you and show you around, Port Elizabeth is only 65km from Jeffrey's Bay, but it's not a summer wave, you might be lucky to get a few paddles in at supers, but there are several really good waves very closely situated so you'll get waves for sure. Good one, take care and God bless and protect you on your journey

[@flomads9037]

"I like to try and wiggle at it." I believe that was the comment you made a couple of videos ago about surfing. Sure. :P

[@davidwestwood5968]

Yep it's freezing in south aus ,nice to see some Warm barrels...

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

They are coming up!! Next week the boys get some good vision!!

[@jonnorousseau3096]

Get those 4/3 wetties, booties and hoody on mate, same here in SA, chillos

[@edsondantas7179]

Estou esperando você de volta gatinha

[@smacksman1]

Poetry in motion to see Riley at full speed.

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Thats Marley at full speed my friend!!

[@smacksman1]

@@FrothLyfeSailingNandji Ha ha! Sorry Marley, slip of the tongue!

[@glennhertel1165]

Hey just got this

[@anthonyalford8970]

Thanks for another outstanding video, I have to visit Australia It seems like the most beautiful and capable women are from their, just saying what you already know, your girl is amazing, keep smiling and stay safe out their.

[@tomb.8485]

A perfect Steve Irwin, except for the sting ray. RIP Steve.

[@edsondantas7179]

Gatinha volte sempre estou te esperando você é o amigo gosti

[@englishmaninfrance661]

Does Mali get seasick ? That wood you were chucking on the fire looked like skeletons

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Nope Marley does not get sea sick. He has been on the water since a pup and has his sea legs

[@toothfairy1605]

Man, what a downer hearing poor Bonnie speaking of the water bed. Feel for yas. + if that's a learner wave I am what I am, a pre-learner.

[@justme.9711]

Guys, you know the market you showed last week, what do you reckon is the cost of a weekly shop for two in Oz dollars at a place like that when you supply your own meat/fish??? Just a guesstimate.

[@FrothLyfeSailingNandji]

Good question, when we visit the local food market for fruit and veges, we spend roughly 40 to 50 dollars on everything we need for 2 weeks

[@surferscollective613]

With a lense lie that use a tripod for best results.

[@divebigblue]

Still haven't seen the feet :)

[@marceld6061]

I think I would have ended up in the reef at 10:41 Definitely wouldn't have noticed the directions.... Small point. I know most everyone calls them the Men-tah-wee but, someone that lives there pronounced it Men-TUH-why.

[@philipmarro6610]

Wow, two amazing beautiful females. Bonita as usual and her friend is looking pretty good in her bikini 👙

[@mrsethatwood]

What is that black shirt she has on "Seth Sentry" ? i need one.

[@alberthurst7959]

ALBERTNHURSTCALGARY:AB

[@kensherlock6475]

Did you get a burn on front of your stomach? What happened?

[@jdl2180]

I don't think that I have ever heard a more annoying accent than a Australian accent! 😝 wtf are you saying?

[@victorbitter583]

He said" Garngitfuked youcarnt." lol.

[@highvibe4839]

Dr. Waako Barbie gidday mate, how the f..k are ya? I’ve had a roadie or two so excuse my language digger! I was just eating a vegemite Sanger when I read your comment.. I’ve got some mates around to watch the footy and where cookin some snags on The barbie, your welcome to pull up a stump and join us for a coldie, top night on telly. The wallabies are playin the All blacks and were goanna beat the s..t outa them, get my drift..Any way gotta go, my Sheila Shazza calling me for tea, oh blimey she’s a catch, what a top bird.. see you in a while crocodile, ha ha know what I’m sayin! Hoorooy Mate!

[@JustMe-pp1mp]

@@highvibe4839 Calling in from Canada, understood everything except "snags". Is that a food product or your pronunciation of "snacks" ?

[@highvibe4839]

Just Me snags are sausages! Poor Dr Waako, he’s now coping it from us Aussies! It’s just our lingo put into full exaggeration! He would not get it at all, especially if he can’t understand us.. I lived in Canada for a year B.C, Canadians understood me..some Americans thought I was Scottish, European, I said Australia, they said Austria! No history is taught outside of America!