"Kami mau dua ayam banyak, saya potong"

We would like two big chickens, we will kill them… The vast list of provisions unattainable in Indonesia is topped by two ingredients very dear to the hearts of the Khulula crew: Fresh meat and fresh bread… Well, that isn’t entirely true, as the latter can be...

Call of Nature

by Shane Robinson It is just past sunrise and there is not a breath of wind on the ocean. We currently have a left and a right hand reef break on either side of Khululu both within 200 meters of the boat. Except from the 5 people on board Khululu there are two other...

Where is Khulula?!

People may have noticed that the frequency of Khulula blog postings appear to be directly proportional to the amount of time Khulula and crew spend at sea… Has anyone noticed this? After two weeks of idyllic, unmoving, unsailing (word? Not a word?), full-sleep-nights...

Garbage, Adventure and Surf

The three major tenets of the OceanGybe Expedition are garbage, adventure and surf. We generally pick our course and destination dependant on the likelihood of these three variables, and, of course, the wind. As we sail into the Indian Ocean and away from the Pacific,...

10 000nm, a new ocean and 35 knots winds

Khulula is sitting at the very convergence of numerous large events in her young life. One, as of today, she has sailed 10 000nm with some dirty crew members messing with her sails every couple of hours; Two, she is about to enter a brand new ocean; and Three, has...