Greetings Landlubbers!
The Jones’ and the Argosy’s (yacht ‘Seabird’) have returned to Malaysia after a a two and half month stay back home in the States. Our reasoning for going home for the summer was that we might enjoy a reprieve from the heat here in Eastern Malaysia (a few degrees – like 4, from the Equator). Didn’t work! We spent the time at home in typically hot and sticky Virginia and Florida summer weatherJ. Actually, we are seldom home for the summer months so it was a nice break to catch up with family and friends…and, of course, collect more boat parts!
Captain & Crew…and, lots of bags!
Our decision to keep the boats in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, North Borneo proved to be a good one. The boat fared better there than any of the places/marinas we’ve left her in the past. We had two hard working Filipino fellas wash & wax the boat while we were away and she gleams! We also, had a diligent engineer from the Marina check in on both our boats. He was great at following up with a checklist and filing a report via email. Before our departure, Braun & Steven donned their scuba gear and dove in the clear waters of the marina. Clear water in a marina is highly unusual – most of the time the marina waters are pretty polluted. They found the boat bottoms to be clean of marine growth. In contrast, we had a diver scheduled every two weeks to scrape off the shag rug growth on the bottom while the boats rested in Hong Kong.
Steven & Braun at work on a malfunctioning power wash gizmo
Wayne helping Braun with dive gear
We had but just over a week to get the boat ship shape, provisioned and fueled before we left Borneo and all its Eco treasures and set off for our passage to
Singapore (4 days straight through). Delighted to report that our good friend and mariner extraordinaire, Wayne Davis is back on board to join us for the passage.
On the weather front, we adjusted our departure date to September 29th, 2011, as there was a typhoon brewing in the northern Philippines that had some feeder systems in our area that while not extreme we were opting for comfort!
Then, there’s the “threat assessment” report to consider…Yowser! I probably lost 5 lbs. in angst over the Captain’s piracy drills! Oy! Flare guns out & ready, strobe light and siren alarm locked and loaded, bear spray…check! Malaysian Rescue Coordination Center in Kuala Lumpur contact posted by the Sat phone, USCG/Hawaii (that covers all of Asia – go figure, the budget is really tight!) contact, Kuching, Malaysia contact – which by the way is only available for rescue efforts between 9 to 5 and, the EPIRB (Emergency Position Information Radio Beacon) close at hand in the pilothouse. Yep…Braun’s taking that Boy Scout motto – “be prepared” seriously…of course, he tells me to have no worries…just good to be prepared in the event of…to which I agree…nevertheless, it’s hard not to imagine the possibilities, none of which are good!!
I may joke some about this piracy subject but, by no means do we take it lightly. We are fortunate to receive valuable information and guidance from a group Braun is affiliated with, the International Maritime Security Corporation
, www.internationalmaritime.org
I mentioned in one of our earlier blogs that in addition to weather, our route required careful planning as it would lead us north of the Indonesian mainland but just south of some suspect Indonesian Islands, all of which are areas where pirates have been known to operate. To minimize the risk, the objective was to plan for a day time run near these islands and also day time arrival into the busy shipping harbor of Singapore. We knew it would be difficult to make both of these happen. Sure enough we ended up transiting the “pirate potential” narrow passage on a dark, moonless night. Lucky no one saw us!
On the morning that departed for this South China Sea passage it was bright and sunny with wonderfully calm conditions. Almost immediately, what we were told to expect is what we saw…a lot of log debris. Commercial logging in the extensive tropical rainforests of this region (Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia) continues to cause regional and international controversy. The impact of ill-supervised and often unscrupulous logging has been massive. I recently read from a guidebook that tropical deforestation for this region accounts for around 20% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Rainforests play a vital role in regulating the global climate and the more trees that are felled, the more unpredictable the climate will be become. Of course…this isn’t just a problem for Malaysia and Indonesia, heavy weight culprits, but for the whole planet. Sooo…how does this affect us on our boat 60 miles off shore? Rivers of the region are now carrying a huge load of silt from topsoil loss after upstream clear felling, causing floods to occur more swiftly and dangerously, and large logs and flotsam spill out from the river into the sea. It was easy to dodge the debris in the daylight… all we could do at night was crossed our fingers!
The other obstacles to dodge were the numerous large gas/oil platforms at day and night. These are major source of income for Malaysia, which makes her wealthy compared to her neighbors.
Just a sample of some of the debris…this is relatively small compared to what we encountered and I neglected to photograph!
Photo of gas large gas platform
Always keepin an eye out for the ‘Bird’!
Every day we encountered isolated storms…some worse than others with loud booming thunder and bright bolts of lightning. We did our best to dodge the lightning storms…as all it would take is one strike aboard to fry the electronics. We put the spare GPS, VHF radio, Sat Phone, and similar portable electronic units into the galley oven. This forms a sort of “Faraday cage” which might provide some protection for those devices in the event of a strike.
Radar screens on the bridge noting big thunderstorms ahead
Our second night out, Braun had just relieved me on my watch…9pm-ish – when the sound you least want to hear on a boat underway occurred – that would be the throttle put “in neutral”…OK – the worst sound would be hearing the engine quit! But when the engine is powered back it is done to stop the boat and that means something is amiss. Wayne & immediately jumped out of our racks and double timed to the bridge to see what was going on. Braun had our large spot light (fondly called the “Cajun radar”) shinning ahead. There before us maybe 100 feet away, was a line of bobbing white fishing buoys stretching as far as we could see to the port and starboard. Braun radioed ‘Seabird’ right away and we now believe that she had either found a break in the line or had gone right over the line. We back tracked on our course and navigated away from the line of buoys with Braun manning the big spot, Wayne managing the two smaller spotlights and me outside on the deck with the night vision goggles. We did find some flashing red lights marking what we believe were more floating pots and nets. Getting fishing nets fouled up in the running gear (prop, rudder etc.) is right up there with fried electronics! We had a couple more near misses with unmarked net buoys…all of course at night but thankfully no fouled gear. Btw, a standard procedure to avoid fishing gear is to run offshore at least 20-30 miles and you should be fine. Not so in these waters as we were 45+ miles off Borneo when we had the run in with the buoy net system.
Kudos to Wayne for doing a great job in lying out coordinates for this passage. The route and the timing were perfect! Early morning (0400 hrs.) the day of our arrival into Singapore, Carol and I were delighted that our course kept us well off the some 20 to 30 ships anchored off to our starboard some 25 miles east of the Singapore Straits. It was a beautiful thing…
We arrived at the entrance of the Straits at dawn and still had another 40 miles to go weaving through many more anchored ships. The sour world economy has idled a lot of shipping and it is just sitting, waiting for better days.
We proudly raised the ‘Stars & Stripes’ and cruised into the fray. Since departing Kota Kinabalu as part of our “run silent run deep” strategy to avoid trouble we had not been flying the American flag.
Thankfully, we have experience navigating such heavily congested waterways think of Tokyo Bay, Osaka, Hong Kong…and now Singapore – a great SE Asian maritime cross-roads is NO different. The Singapore Straits traffic separation scheme (think highway for mega-ships) is one of the busiest in the world. Large commercial vessels run 12 minutes apart! Throw in extreme tidal streams, eddies, etc…and by the way, the pilot book for this area clearly states that “vessels less than 20meters – have NO rights of way – (the ‘Pearl’ is 19 meters) – yep, the perfect storm.
Chart plotter displays the Singapore Straits and all the ship traffic!!
Just a sample of ships anchored inside & outside the Straits of Singapore
The Singapore check in process was all very orderly. We went to the designated “Quarantine & Immigration Anchorage”, hailed the Immigration craft and were greeted shortly thereafter. Clearance paperwork and passports were processed via fishing net pass over and we were tied up at the dock in under an hour! Singaporeans are very very efficient.
Singapore Immigration vessel and ‘Seabird’ clearing in
We are staying in a beautiful marina just outside of town called, “One 15 Marina”, located on Sentosa Island. It is so named because it is one degree, 15 minutes from the Equator. HOT!! Jungle HOT!!
Website: www.one15marina.com
One 15 Marina
There’s plenty to say about Singapore but, we’ll save it for the next update.
Stay tuned…from Singapore we’ll cruise up the Malaccan Straits to Malaysia and Thailand. Did I say Malaccan Straits? Isn’t that second only to the Somalia area for pirate incidents? Better check with the Captain…
Cheers –
Tina & Braun
p.s. Presently, fellow GSSR boat, ‘Sans Souci’, Ken & Roberta Williams are in Gocek, Turkey. They are spending a few weeks cruising some of Turkey’s turquoise coast…hope our paths cross soon!
www.kensblog.com
The Jones’ and the Argosy’s (yacht ‘Seabird’) have returned to Malaysia after a a two and half month stay back home in the States. Our reasoning for going home for the summer was that we might enjoy a reprieve from the heat here in Eastern Malaysia (a few degrees – like 4, from the Equator). Didn’t work! We spent the time at home in typically hot and sticky Virginia and Florida summer weatherJ. Actually, we are seldom home for the summer months so it was a nice break to catch up with family and friends…and, of course, collect more boat parts!
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Our decision to keep the boats in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, North Borneo proved to be a good one. The boat fared better there than any of the places/marinas we’ve left her in the past. We had two hard working Filipino fellas wash & wax the boat while we were away and she gleams! We also, had a diligent engineer from the Marina check in on both our boats. He was great at following up with a checklist and filing a report via email. Before our departure, Braun & Steven donned their scuba gear and dove in the clear waters of the marina. Clear water in a marina is highly unusual – most of the time the marina waters are pretty polluted. They found the boat bottoms to be clean of marine growth. In contrast, we had a diver scheduled every two weeks to scrape off the shag rug growth on the bottom while the boats rested in Hong Kong.
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We had but just over a week to get the boat ship shape, provisioned and fueled before we left Borneo and all its Eco treasures and set off for our passage to
Singapore (4 days straight through). Delighted to report that our good friend and mariner extraordinaire, Wayne Davis is back on board to join us for the passage.
On the weather front, we adjusted our departure date to September 29th, 2011, as there was a typhoon brewing in the northern Philippines that had some feeder systems in our area that while not extreme we were opting for comfort!
Then, there’s the “threat assessment” report to consider…Yowser! I probably lost 5 lbs. in angst over the Captain’s piracy drills! Oy! Flare guns out & ready, strobe light and siren alarm locked and loaded, bear spray…check! Malaysian Rescue Coordination Center in Kuala Lumpur contact posted by the Sat phone, USCG/Hawaii (that covers all of Asia – go figure, the budget is really tight!) contact, Kuching, Malaysia contact – which by the way is only available for rescue efforts between 9 to 5 and, the EPIRB (Emergency Position Information Radio Beacon) close at hand in the pilothouse. Yep…Braun’s taking that Boy Scout motto – “be prepared” seriously…of course, he tells me to have no worries…just good to be prepared in the event of…to which I agree…nevertheless, it’s hard not to imagine the possibilities, none of which are good!!
I may joke some about this piracy subject but, by no means do we take it lightly. We are fortunate to receive valuable information and guidance from a group Braun is affiliated with, the International Maritime Security Corporation
, www.internationalmaritime.org
I mentioned in one of our earlier blogs that in addition to weather, our route required careful planning as it would lead us north of the Indonesian mainland but just south of some suspect Indonesian Islands, all of which are areas where pirates have been known to operate. To minimize the risk, the objective was to plan for a day time run near these islands and also day time arrival into the busy shipping harbor of Singapore. We knew it would be difficult to make both of these happen. Sure enough we ended up transiting the “pirate potential” narrow passage on a dark, moonless night. Lucky no one saw us!
On the morning that departed for this South China Sea passage it was bright and sunny with wonderfully calm conditions. Almost immediately, what we were told to expect is what we saw…a lot of log debris. Commercial logging in the extensive tropical rainforests of this region (Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia) continues to cause regional and international controversy. The impact of ill-supervised and often unscrupulous logging has been massive. I recently read from a guidebook that tropical deforestation for this region accounts for around 20% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Rainforests play a vital role in regulating the global climate and the more trees that are felled, the more unpredictable the climate will be become. Of course…this isn’t just a problem for Malaysia and Indonesia, heavy weight culprits, but for the whole planet. Sooo…how does this affect us on our boat 60 miles off shore? Rivers of the region are now carrying a huge load of silt from topsoil loss after upstream clear felling, causing floods to occur more swiftly and dangerously, and large logs and flotsam spill out from the river into the sea. It was easy to dodge the debris in the daylight… all we could do at night was crossed our fingers!
The other obstacles to dodge were the numerous large gas/oil platforms at day and night. These are major source of income for Malaysia, which makes her wealthy compared to her neighbors.
 |
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 |
Every day we encountered isolated storms…some worse than others with loud booming thunder and bright bolts of lightning. We did our best to dodge the lightning storms…as all it would take is one strike aboard to fry the electronics. We put the spare GPS, VHF radio, Sat Phone, and similar portable electronic units into the galley oven. This forms a sort of “Faraday cage” which might provide some protection for those devices in the event of a strike.
 |
Our second night out, Braun had just relieved me on my watch…9pm-ish – when the sound you least want to hear on a boat underway occurred – that would be the throttle put “in neutral”…OK – the worst sound would be hearing the engine quit! But when the engine is powered back it is done to stop the boat and that means something is amiss. Wayne & immediately jumped out of our racks and double timed to the bridge to see what was going on. Braun had our large spot light (fondly called the “Cajun radar”) shinning ahead. There before us maybe 100 feet away, was a line of bobbing white fishing buoys stretching as far as we could see to the port and starboard. Braun radioed ‘Seabird’ right away and we now believe that she had either found a break in the line or had gone right over the line. We back tracked on our course and navigated away from the line of buoys with Braun manning the big spot, Wayne managing the two smaller spotlights and me outside on the deck with the night vision goggles. We did find some flashing red lights marking what we believe were more floating pots and nets. Getting fishing nets fouled up in the running gear (prop, rudder etc.) is right up there with fried electronics! We had a couple more near misses with unmarked net buoys…all of course at night but thankfully no fouled gear. Btw, a standard procedure to avoid fishing gear is to run offshore at least 20-30 miles and you should be fine. Not so in these waters as we were 45+ miles off Borneo when we had the run in with the buoy net system.
Kudos to Wayne for doing a great job in lying out coordinates for this passage. The route and the timing were perfect! Early morning (0400 hrs.) the day of our arrival into Singapore, Carol and I were delighted that our course kept us well off the some 20 to 30 ships anchored off to our starboard some 25 miles east of the Singapore Straits. It was a beautiful thing…
We arrived at the entrance of the Straits at dawn and still had another 40 miles to go weaving through many more anchored ships. The sour world economy has idled a lot of shipping and it is just sitting, waiting for better days.
We proudly raised the ‘Stars & Stripes’ and cruised into the fray. Since departing Kota Kinabalu as part of our “run silent run deep” strategy to avoid trouble we had not been flying the American flag.
Thankfully, we have experience navigating such heavily congested waterways think of Tokyo Bay, Osaka, Hong Kong…and now Singapore – a great SE Asian maritime cross-roads is NO different. The Singapore Straits traffic separation scheme (think highway for mega-ships) is one of the busiest in the world. Large commercial vessels run 12 minutes apart! Throw in extreme tidal streams, eddies, etc…and by the way, the pilot book for this area clearly states that “vessels less than 20meters – have NO rights of way – (the ‘Pearl’ is 19 meters) – yep, the perfect storm.
 |
 |
The Singapore check in process was all very orderly. We went to the designated “Quarantine & Immigration Anchorage”, hailed the Immigration craft and were greeted shortly thereafter. Clearance paperwork and passports were processed via fishing net pass over and we were tied up at the dock in under an hour! Singaporeans are very very efficient.
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We are staying in a beautiful marina just outside of town called, “One 15 Marina”, located on Sentosa Island. It is so named because it is one degree, 15 minutes from the Equator. HOT!! Jungle HOT!!
Website: www.one15marina.com
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There’s plenty to say about Singapore but, we’ll save it for the next update.
Stay tuned…from Singapore we’ll cruise up the Malaccan Straits to Malaysia and Thailand. Did I say Malaccan Straits? Isn’t that second only to the Somalia area for pirate incidents? Better check with the Captain…
Cheers –
Tina & Braun
p.s. Presently, fellow GSSR boat, ‘Sans Souci’, Ken & Roberta Williams are in Gocek, Turkey. They are spending a few weeks cruising some of Turkey’s turquoise coast…hope our paths cross soon!
www.kensblog.com
SUBJECT: Fwd: ‘Grey Pearl’ is on the move…again!…in Singapore!
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From: “tina@p…”
Date: October 14, 2011 1:35:53 AM EDT
To: Grey Pearl
Subject: ‘Grey Pearl’ is on the move…again!…in Singapore!
Greetings Landlubbers!
The Jones’ and the Argosy’s (yacht ‘Seabird’) have returned to Malaysia after a a two and half month stay back home in the States. Our reasoning for going home for the summer was that we might enjoy a reprieve from the heat here in Eastern Malaysia (a few degrees – like 4, from the Equator). Didn’t work! We spent the time at home in typically hot and sticky Virginia and Florida summer weatherJ. Actually, we are seldom home for the summer months so it was a nice break to catch up with family and friends…and, of course, collect more boat parts!
Captain & Crew…and, lots of bags!
Our decision to keep the boats in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, North Borneo proved to be a good one. The boat fared better there than any of the places/marinas we’ve left her in the past. We had two hard working Filipino fellas wash & wax the boat while we were away and she gleams! We also, had a diligent engineer from the Marina check in on both our boats. He was great at following up with a checklist and filing a report via email. Before our departure, Braun & Steven donned their scuba gear and dove in the clear waters of the marina. Clear water in a marina is highly unusual – most of the time the marina waters are pretty polluted. They found the boat bottoms to be clean of marine growth. In contrast, we had a diver scheduled every two weeks to scrape off the shag rug growth on the bottom while the boats rested in Hong Kong.
Steven & Braun at work on a malfunctioning power wash gizmo
Wayne helping Braun with dive gear
We had but just over a week to get the boat ship shape, provisioned and fueled before we left Borneo and all its Eco treasures and set off for our passage to
Singapore (4 days straight through). Delighted to report that our good friend and mariner extraordinaire, Wayne Davis is back on board to join us for the passage.
On the weather front, we adjusted our departure date to September 29th, 2011, as there was a typhoon brewing in the northern Philippines that had some feeder systems in our area that while not extreme we were opting for comfort!
Then, there’s the “threat assessment” report to consider…Yowser! I probably lost 5 lbs. in angst over the Captain’s piracy drills! Oy! Flare guns out & ready, strobe light and siren alarm locked and loaded, bear spray…check! Malaysian Rescue Coordination Center in Kuala Lumpur contact posted by the Sat phone, USCG/Hawaii (that covers all of Asia – go figure, the budget is really tight!) contact, Kuching, Malaysia contact – which by the way is only available for rescue efforts between 9 to 5 and, the EPIRB (Emergency Position Information Radio Beacon) close at hand in the pilothouse. Yep…Braun’s taking that Boy Scout motto – “be prepared” seriously…of course, he tells me to have no worries…just good to be prepared in the event of…to which I agree…nevertheless, it’s hard not to imagine the possibilities, none of which are good!!
I may joke some about this piracy subject but, by no means do we take it lightly. We are fortunate to receive valuable information and guidance from a group Braun is affiliated with, the International Maritime Security Corporation, http://www.internationalmaritime.org
I mentioned in one of our earlier blogs that in addition to weather, our route required careful planning as it would lead us north of the Indonesian mainland but just south of some suspect Indonesian Islands, all of which are areas where pirates have been known to operate. To minimize the risk, the objective was to plan for a day time run near these islands and also day time arrival into the busy shipping harbor of Singapore. We knew it would be difficult to make both of these happen. Sure enough we ended up transiting the “pirate potential” narrow passage on a dark, moonless night. Lucky no one saw us!
On the morning that departed for this South China Sea passage it was bright and sunny with wonderfully calm conditions. Almost immediately, what we were told to expect is what we saw…a lot of log debris. Commercial logging in the extensive tropical rainforests of this region (Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia) continues to cause regional and international controversy. The impact of ill-supervised and often unscrupulous logging has been massive. I recently read from a guidebook that tropical deforestation for this region accounts for around 20% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Rainforests play a vital role in regulating the global climate and the more trees that are felled, the more unpredictable the climate will be become. Of course…this isn’t just a problem for Malaysia and Indonesia, heavy weight culprits, but for the whole planet. Sooo…how does this affect us on our boat 60 miles off shore? Rivers of the region are now carrying a huge load of silt from topsoil loss after upstream clear felling, causing floods to occur more swiftly and dangerously, and large logs and flotsam spill out from the river into the sea. It was easy to dodge the debris in the daylight… all we could do at night was crossed our fingers!
The other obstacles to dodge were the numerous large gas/oil platforms at day and night. These are major source of income for Malaysia, which makes her wealthy compared to her neighbors.
Just a sample of some of the debris…this is relatively small compared to what we encountered and I neglected to photograph!
Photo of gas large gas platform
Always keepin an eye out for the ‘Bird’!
Every day we encountered isolated storms…some worse than others with loud booming thunder and bright bolts of lightning. We did our best to dodge the lightning storms…as all it would take is one strike aboard to fry the electronics. We put the spare GPS, VHF radio, Sat Phone, and similar portable electronic units into the galley oven. This forms a sort of “Faraday cage” which might provide some protection for those devices in the event of a strike.
Radar screens on the bridge noting big thunderstorms ahead
Our second night out, Braun had just relieved me on my watch…9pm-ish – when the sound you least want to hear on a boat underway occurred – that would be the throttle put “in neutral”…OK – the worst sound would be hearing the engine quit! But when the engine is powered back it is done to stop the boat and that means something is amiss. Wayne & immediately jumped out of our racks and double timed to the bridge to see what was going on. Braun had our large spot light (fondly called the “Cajun radar”) shinning ahead. There before us maybe 100 feet away, was a line of bobbing white fishing buoys stretching as far as we could see to the port and starboard. Braun radioed ‘Seabird’ right away and we now believe that she had either found a break in the line or had gone right over the line. We back tracked on our course and navigated away from the line of buoys with Braun manning the big spot, Wayne managing the two smaller spotlights and me outside on the deck with the night vision goggles. We did find some flashing red lights marking what we believe were more floating pots and nets. Getting fishing nets fouled up in the running gear (prop, rudder etc.) is right up there with fried electronics! We had a couple more near misses with unmarked net buoys…all of course at night but thankfully no fouled gear. Btw, a standard procedure to avoid fishing gear is to run offshore at least 20-30 miles and you should be fine. Not so in these waters as we were 45+ miles off Borneo when we had the run in with the buoy net system.
Kudos to Wayne for doing a great job in lying out coordinates for this passage. The route and the timing were perfect! Early morning (0400 hrs.) the day of our arrival into Singapore, Carol and I were delighted that our course kept us well off the some 20 to 30 ships anchored off to our starboard some 25 miles east of the Singapore Straits. It was a beautiful thing…
We arrived at the entrance of the Straits at dawn and still had another 40 miles to go weaving through many more anchored ships. The sour world economy has idled a lot of shipping and it is just sitting, waiting for better days.
We proudly raised the ‘Stars & Stripes’ and cruised into the fray. Since departing Kota Kinabalu as part of our “run silent run deep” strategy to avoid trouble we had not been flying the American flag.
Thankfully, we have experience navigating such heavily congested waterways think of Tokyo Bay, Osaka, Hong Kong…and now Singapore – a great SE Asian maritime cross-roads is NO different. The Singapore Straits traffic separation scheme (think highway for mega-ships) is one of the busiest in the world. Large commercial vessels run 12 minutes apart! Throw in extreme tidal streams, eddies, etc…and by the way, the pilot book for this area clearly states that “vessels less than 20meters – have NO rights of way – (the ‘Pearl’ is 19 meters) – yep, the perfect storm.
Chart plotter displays the Singapore Straits and all the ship traffic!!
Just a sample of ships anchored inside & outside the Straits of Singapore
The Singapore check in process was all very orderly. We went to the designated “Quarantine & Immigration Anchorage”, hailed the Immigration craft and were greeted shortly thereafter. Clearance paperwork and passports were processed via fishing net pass over and we were tied up at the dock in under an hour! Singaporeans are very very efficient.
Singapore Immigration vessel and ‘Seabird’ clearing in
We are staying in a beautiful marina just outside of town called, “One 15 Marina”, located on Sentosa Island. It is so named because it is one degree, 15 minutes from the Equator. HOT!! Jungle HOT!!
Website: http://www.one15marina.com
One 15 Marina
There’s plenty to say about Singapore but, we’ll save it for the next update.
Stay tuned…from Singapore we’ll cruise up the Malaccan Straits to Malaysia and Thailand. Did I say Malaccan Straits? Isn’t that second only to the Somalia area for pirate incidents? Better check with the Captain…
Cheers –
Tina & Braun
p.s. Presently, fellow GSSR boat, ‘Sans Souci’, Ken & Roberta Williams are in Gocek, Turkey. They are spending a few weeks cruising some of Turkey’s turquoise coast…hope our paths cross soon!
http://www.kensblog.com
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