The better move was to just sit on a piece of driftwood on the beach for a couple hours, and… wait it out. I was technically stranded on a remote, uninhabited Indonesian island in the middle of the Flores Sea. The unpredictable nature of nature was, in fact, the whole point. Photo: Annie DalyOver the past few years, remote phinisi adventures like this have become increasingly popular in Indonesia—and it’s not hard to see why. For one thing, sailing on one means sailing on a piece of Indonesian history.