Hi Everyone,
Randal and I are back on DoraMac in Sebana Cove. Our cruising friends Cliff and Ruth from Icicle had been keeping an eye on her. They even had the fridge going when we got back about 9 pm Friday night Sebana time. We had spent about 20 hours flying and 22 hours of layover time by the time we got off the Singapore to Sebana ferry. Way too long! But all of the flights were smooth and the luggage arrived when we did so no complaints. Except for one. We flew Lufthansa/United and had a 12 hour layover in Munich. Nowhere in the whole second floor of terminal H area was there a water fountain. And, of course, I couldn’t bring the water I’d had from the previous flight. So it was $5 US !!! for a cup of tea. A bottle of water was $1.90 Euro which was about $3 US. How can you not provide drinking water for free to airline passengers?
Saturday, Cliff and Ruth had borrowed cruiser John’s car and we joined them for a trip to Kota Tinggi for groceries. Everyone was having a good time until the car’s electrical system stopped on the way home in the rain. Miraculously John’s mechanic was traveling the road to Kota Tinggi and had been alerted to our predicament. He stopped and using his battery started our car. Luckily the rain had stopped so we didn’t need the wipers or lights or AC so the battery charge lasted until Cliff dropped us off at Sebana’s main gate and drove himself on to Sungai Ringget to the repair shop. We returned to DoraMac mid-afternoon and I slept until about 6 pm. Sunday we were up early. Lang and Douglas invited us to go with them to Sungai Renggit for lunch. We made a quick stop at the grocery store on our way home. I lasted about 1 hour before it was nap time again. I woke about 6 and Randal and I joined the C dock happy hour for a bit. Then it was back to the boat to cook chicken for dinner that neither of us was awake enough to eat. We were in bed and asleep by 9:30 pm. This morning we were up at 3:30 am and I figured it was the best time to work on storing all of the groceries and stuff we’d left strewn about the boat since we got back. Also, the Internet is working somewhat oddly so you have to use it when it works.
Our Plans……
Some time this week we will be joining up with www.sailmalaysia.net. Many of our cruising friends, including Ruth and Cliff will take part. We will cover about 2300 miles and see many parts of Malaysia we have not seen. The rally ends in Kota Kinabalu where we had spent time but quite like it.
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Passage To The East – Rally Schedule |
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IN SUMMARY, THE SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS. DETAILS BELOW: 3 May – Penang 5 May – Lumut 10-12 May – Danga Bay, Johor Bahru 13-15 May – Puteri Harbour, Nusajaya 19-21 May – Sebana Cove, Johor 28-29 May – Tioman Island, Pahang 30 May-2 June – Kuantan, Pahang 9 June – Kapas Island, Terengganu 10-13 June – Kuala Terengganu 2-3 July – Kuching-Santubong, Sarawak 21-23 July – Miri, Sarawak 24-27 July – Brunei 1-2 August – Kota Kinabalu, Sabah I did take hundreds of photos while we were in the US and will try to post a few. We spent time with my sister’s family, Randal’s family and lots of friends. We made new friends too! We thank them for taking great care of us during our visit. Except with our friend Julia in Hyannis, we tried not to stay longer than 3 days! Time flew! I will try to share some photos if I have time before we leave. When we join the rally we will be anchored out a great deal of the time so communications might be sparse. Sorry. And any Internet connections might be very slow, so please save any emails with photos for when we are back at a marina. It is just very hard to download anything other than text. So that’s it for this quick update. Time to get back to packing up the boat. GO SOX!!!!! Ru MY DoraMac |
