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Evan Hostad

Posts by Evan Hostad:

Family Jungle Kayaking in Borneo – Smug Monday 20
Exploring Thailand’s Islands with Granny and Nanna – The Smug Monday Series, Ep. 19
Elephant Nature Park Adventures, Thailand – The Smug Monday Series Ep. 18
Traditional sailing boat adventure, Sri Lanka – Smug Monday 11
Smug Christmas Adventures – Whale Watching, Mirissa, Sri Lanka
White Water Rafting On The Upper Seti, Nepal – The Smug Monday Series, Ep. 6
Trekking to Poon Hill, Annapurna region – The Smug Monday Series, Ep. 4

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Exploring the world on a sailing boat called Fat Susan with our two teenage boys. UK>Caribbean>South America so far! 😁

Big ‘ole squall on the way from Panama City to L

Big ‘ole squall on the way from Panama City to Las Perlas islands. Flat calm seas and torrential rain with thunder and lightning all around. A bit weird. 😂

Pelican vs. Squall . . . #pelican #weather #sailin

Pelican vs. Squall .
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#pelican #weather #sailing #squall #cloud #getthewashingin #panama #thunder

Beautiful sky. 😍 But as a similar squall took o

Beautiful sky. 😍 But as a similar squall took out our wind instruments this morning, this one can sod off. ⚡️😂 We should be luxuriating off a tropical island with a rum punch🍹 by now but we’re still here. I think I’ll get the washing in. ☔️

It’s Fat Susan’s three year anniversary today.

It’s Fat Susan’s three year anniversary today. Yay! Three years ago we became the proud, if somewhat naive owners of an adventurous yet high maintenance girl, who has carried us safely to sixteen countries from the UK to Panama.
It hasn’t been easy. Living aboard Susan has been a massive learning curve. Some days I just want to scuttle her and walk away, back to a ‘normal’ life with more convenience and less frustration and terror. 😂 But I love her really and I will probably never deliberately sink her. Although I can’t promise. .
She probably deserved different owners (read: ones who could sail and knew what they were getting themselves into). But she ended up with a bunch of computer geeks, audiologists and school children, with no suitable skills or experience. To be honest, nobody else wanted her. Hmmmm. Perhaps that should have rung some bells. 🤪 .
On the other hand, the past three years have been the most incredible experience for all of us. We have seen so much, learned so much, experienced so much. We couldn’t have done this without our Fat Susan. .
We’re about to embark on our biggest challenge yet, the Pacific Ocean. I don’t know where we’ll be this time next year, but I know we won’t have any regrets. .
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#lovefatsusan

Thanks for all my birthday messages!! 😍😂🎂

Thanks for all my birthday messages!! 😍😂🎂

That dust from the Sahara has arrived. According t

That dust from the Sahara has arrived. According to the forecasts, Panama only catches a little bit of it, but visibility still reduced a lot here.
Before and after photos of view from Fat Susan.

We’re still here at anchor in Panama City! Our

We’re still here at anchor in Panama City!
Our replacement dinghy arrived (the other one disintegrated). But then we found the outboard had welded itself to Fat Susan. It has taken three days and a lot of skin sacrificed from Dez’s hands to get the clamp off, snapping the 1cm thick bolt several times in the process.
Then came the stress of finding spare parts in a locked down Panama City. Massive thanks to Dani and Asher from Bacchus for ferrying us from boat to land (they have an excellent YouTube channel - link in comments) and the amazing JuanJo for phoning around the shops and finding the parts.
Dez is off into the city today (men are allowed out for two hours on Thursdays) for shopping. Hopefully nothing else will break and we’ll be off to the Las Perlas islands in a few days.... probably.

So lovely to be out at anchor after three months t

So lovely to be out at anchor after three months tied to a pontoon. The movement of the boat, the breeze, the lack of biting insects.....
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#lasbrisasanchorage #panamacity #anchor #sailing #sunset #sailingaroundtheworld #fatsusan #andrelax

Panama City at night, as seen from Fat Susan at an

Panama City at night, as seen from Fat Susan at anchor. It’s an impressive looking skyline.

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