Crew on HIGH ALERT sailing through PIRATE WATERS in the Philippines! - (Episode 320)

Name: Crew on HIGH ALERT sailing through PIRATE WATERS in the Philippines! - (Episode 320)
Uploaded: 2025-07-06T13:59:56.000Z
Duration: 23 min 33 s
Description: Parlay Revival anchors 20 miles up Borneo's Kinabatangan River and battles a meter-thick debris pile on the ebb tide.

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Parlay Revival, a Lagoon 450 catamaran, sails the Sulu Sea on a passage from the Philippines toward Indonesia, transiting two designated piracy zones associated with the Abu Sayyaf Group.0:04 Colin turns off AIS transmission and runs dark at night through the most exposed stretch, while reporting position to the Malaysian Navy twice daily by VHF.4:18 Two separate fishing boats (locally called bunkers) approach at sea, 100 miles from land; both prove to be fishermen, but the crew keeps the two women below and all men on deck until each encounter resolves.5:17 The Navy makes VHF contact that night and clears Parlay Revival into Malaysian waters the following morning, completing the first piracy zone.7:25 In Malaysian Borneo, the crew takes the catamaran 20 miles up the Kinabatangan River, timing the transit to ride the flood tide in and exit on the ebb, using a track shared by another cruiser and Navionics.13:20 At high tide they anchor in 25 feet of water with 115 feet of chain out.17:57 The outgoing current then drives a meter-thick accumulation of logs and debris onto the bows and under the rudders; the crew cannot enter the crocodile-infested water to clear it.20:37 Colin motors forward at full RPM and turns hard to use the current angle to shed logs, but debris rebuilds immediately and propellers strike submerged logs.21:49 A resort manager assists but the current repeatedly defeats him.21:32 Timing a river anchorage to the tidal cycle does not eliminate debris risk when the ebb current is strong enough to carry large floating logs.