December 17th: cleaning day preparing Southern Star for our visitors. Starting to get very excited now. Kristie and Jessie arrive 12.15pm tomorrow. We had found some energy and decided to start cleaning the outside of the boat last night, it was drizzling off and on but it was quite cool so we decided to make …
Expecting two daughters but only got one! Read More »
December 15th: shopping day today, took the duck across to the Royal Langkawi Yacht Club and tied and locked her up to the jetty. Walked to the nearby Ferry Terminal which is in a mall with lots of duty free shops. They are big on chocolate and alcohol. We hired a car. We could have …
Shopping and diesel Read More »
December 14th: had a very lazy start to the day, not going to say what time we finally got out of bed but it was extremely late. I sat up in bed and updated the blog so it was semi productive. Finally we got organised and went into shore. We left the duck at the …
December 13th: Very excited to be heading to Langkawi! This will be our home for the next 6 weeks while we have our very special visitors. Kristie and Jessie arrive on the 18th, Brad, Kristie’s boyfriend arrives on Christmas Day. Paul and Tracey Grace (brother from another mother) arrive on the 29th December and Robbie’s …
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December 12th: Departed Pangkor at 7:00am for Penang, we were going to go to Georgetown as Per and Elizabeth from Oda had emailed us to say we can get an extended visa for Thailand there which will save us having to exit Thailand after 30 days to get another 30 days. Anyway we couldn’t get …
Pangkor to Penang and a Distress signal received! Read More »
December 11th: The anchor alarm went off at 12.45am, we both bolted out of bed and ran up to the Pilot house. The alarm was definitely going but we had not moved out of the anchor zone. (We set the anchor alarm with a measurement that if the boats moves past this measurement the alarm …
Pulau Pangkor and Steve to the rescue! Read More »
December 7th: We arrived into Admiral Marina, Port Dickson at 10:30am, it’s quite a small marina but in a very nice complex, with a beautiful Hotel building and surrounded by apartments. A nice complex with pool, security guards, restaurant and bar. There were some of the rally boats here, Almacantar, En-Pointe, Soul Sacrifice and …
December 6th: Departed Singapore at 10:30am after we had cleared customs. As it was raining and blowing we got a call to say can we go up the marina office and meet the customs guy – he didn’t want to get wet! It took less than a minute for him to stamp our passports …
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November 26th: Didn’t sleep very well at all, strange because you would think after 4 months on anchor, once you are in a marina and are so safe and secure, that you would sleep like a baby, but not so. It’s also really, really hot. Anyway we got up and I spent the whole …
Singapore – Raffles Marina Read More »