Torren Martyn has built a life for himself that’s easy to envy. It’s centered around surfing and exploration; devoted to not a particular destination, but the simple act of looking. In recent years, his mode of transportation has been sailboats. He, along with partner Aiyana Powell, had an idea a few years ago that could make that life possible.
“It seemed pretty simple,” the description for their upcoming film, Calypte, reads. “Learn how to sail, then acquire a boat and head off on an adventure exploring waves in exotic locations.”
Things, however, rarely go exactly to plan. “Only a few days after beginning the process of learning, an opportunity popped up,” they explained. “A boat in the South China Sea that needed to be delivered to eastern Indonesia – ‘the job’s yours if you want it.’ With thousands of remote islands and endless perfect surf between origin and destination, the decision seemed simple. ‘Why wouldn’t we? Only one small problem – we don’t know how to sail yet…'”
But Torren and Aiyana aren’t people to turn down the opportunity of a lifetime for a silly reason like not knowing how to sail. It’s quite the endeavor, though, moving a sailboat a great distance with very little experience.
“The one requirement of their charter was to eventually deliver the boat to Eastern Indonesia,” the film’s description continues. “They could learn as they went, get a few friends with sailing experience to help through the tricky bits and pick up as much as possible from them along the way.”
So with that loose plan in mind, they boarded their new floating home, headed up through the Strait of Malacca and around the tip of Sumatra. From there, they moved into the Indian Ocean on a year-long trip in search of waves. Like anything good, however, it wasn’t all smooth sailing.
“What seemed like an idyllic journey didn’t come easy,” they wrote. “It was difficult to anticipate the challenges of the sleepless nights, the endless rolling and tossing of the boat, the breakdowns, the relentless maintenance and confined space. But adventures always seem sweeter if it really feels like you had to work to get there.”
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