E77 – PUTERI HARBOUR, MALAYSIA TO NIRUP ISLAND MARINA, INDONESIA
Departing Puteri Harbor, Malaysia We motored out of the Puteri Harbor marina early morning and into the Johor Strait, a narrow waterway separating Singapore from Malaysia and constantly and jealously guarded by both Singaporean and Malaysian Maritime patrol boats. In the Singapore Strait, we wound our way through both...
E75 – PORT DICKSON TO PULAU BESAR
Departing PD World at Port Dickson We depart Port Dickson in calm conditions and motor for the first couple of hours. Eventually, we get a very light breeze and I turned off the engine and we managed to ghost along and sometimes sail at 4-5 kts to have a...
E74 – PANGKOR TO PORT DICKSON
Wrapped around the propeller As we departed Pangkor anchorage, we noticed that we weren’t getting the drive from the revs we should have seen and so we elected to re-anchor. I dived the prop and found a pile of plastic wrapped around the prop which must have happened after...
E73 – PENANG TO PANGKOR
Departing Straits Quay Marina We left Straits Quay Marina in the very early morning to catch the tide movement south and on the last half of a falling tide, but with plenty of water for the exit and headed south down the Passage between Penang and Butterworth and under...
E72 – LANGKAWI TO PENANG
Departing RLYC Langkawi We left the Royal Langkawi Yacht club in calm conditions and motored a short distance to the fuel barge to take on diesel. We only needed about 60 liters, but I like to take every opportunity to have our tanks pressed up. Coming alongside was easy,...
E71 – TELAGA HARBOUR MARINA TO SINGA BESAR
Heading to Singa Besar A quick trip to Singa Besar, about 10nm south of Telaga Harbor where we stumbled on the fortnightly cruising yachtie beach BBQ. Decision made – Australia ! While we were there, we were forced to make a decision to stay in SE Asia and risk...
E66 – LANGKAWI TO KHO ROK
Departing Langkawi (Again) bound for Kho Rok After our last episode, where we arrived at Phuket Haven Marina, our ancient GoPro 7 decided to have issues and we lost and couldn’t make any new content for the entire trip back to Langkawi from Phuket. So through the magic of...
E61 – PORT DICKSON TO PANGKOR
Departing Admiral Marina. After saying goodbye to Tan at the airport in Kuala Lumpur (She went home to Thailand to visit the family), I let go the lines and headed north with the intended destination of Pangkor. I wasn’t expecting any breeze but was pleasantly surprised with an albeit,...
E60 – PULAU BESAR TO PORT DICKSON
Departing Pulau Besar. Continuing to head north, we passed through the port anchorage of Kuala Sengai where many ships were departing and arriving and going about their daily business. We chatted with one large chemical tanker which was coming to anchor nearby just to make sure he knew we...
E59 – PULAU PISANG TO PULAU BESAR
Departing Pulau Pisang We left Pulau Pisang at about 4am as we had a long day ahead of us for the run all the way to Pulau Besar, a distance of about 75nm. Due to a light wind virtually on the nose again we were forced to motor. We...