A journal about boat buying and cruising in Singapore and the SE Asia Region

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

What a Great Day Out


Another quick photo of our afternoon sail with the Macleods and the Volkes families.

Raja Muda Here We Come

We're one week away from setting sail to Malaysia again when we will deliver Sofa up to Port Klang ready for the Raja Muda Regatta. The regatta will take us from Port Klang to Pangkor and on to Langkawi via Penang which sounds like a perfect regatta to us.

We have also got a very good crew list:

Guz Wilkinson
Louis Lim
Chris Furness
Alasdair Reid
Judy Howison
Shaz and Myself

We're also very fortunate to have Phil Blake joining us from Penang onwards.

What a fantastic crew for this regatta, we have experience, muscle and excellent sailing skills all in a group that knows how to enjoy itself. The only sad part was that Gordon had heavy work commitments and so he and Lizzie had to pull out - next time.

More will get posted on this as the regatta builds up.

The photo below was taken during Ambassadors Cup at Changi Sailing Club which is a race where the ambasadors of various countries come onboard the keelboats for a sail round Pulau Ubin. This has always been a fun event but I think it may have just been changed around somewhat with a prize of a Bulgari (sp) watch for the first crew may change this event into something more serious which will be very sad.

David and Ayeshah Trip

Long time friends David and Ayeshah came over from London in Oct to see all their old haunts. A good night was had down at Sin Hoi Sai eating loads and realising that we had all aged since we started eating their around 13/14 years ago.

We went out for a cruise around and were also joined by Mark, Irene and Natasha Volkes which made for a fun afternoon and the breeze even came in to give us power and blow the haze away.

Gordon and Lizzie then came down in the evening and the BBQ was lit and everything went great even to the timing of the gas running out.

Good times.