“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.” Plato
Lucas Day 553!Dinner at Portuguese Restaurant! Mostly Cheese, potatoes and bread!Seafood Rice!
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi
Seeing the Sunrise!Taking the free Bus!At Venetian!At Venetian!Lunch for Cheapskate RZ…Yay! Won something!Room looks good!Room looks good!Dinner at 凤凰大排档!Lucas Day 552!
Finally manage to reach SG today morning and cleared the immigration at Changi (Frontier Buoy) before we head to Keppel Island. Finally done by 3pm today. Soooo tired.
Breakfast by RZ for the crew!Finally at Sentosa!Late lunch, early dinner on land!$500 bucks parking fees! Thank god for complimentary parking!Lucas Day 545!
Started the day early and prepared the boat and our passage. Super long day as we have very little sleep tonight and we need to be in shifts to ensure boat is moving safely at night.
Goodbye Mr. Jaap! Admire the courage you and your wife have to travel the world in your boat S.Y. De Ware Jacob!Wrap Lunch!Wrap Lunch!Lucas Day 544!!!Curry Rice Dinner!Still sailing!Sailing into the sunset and into the night!
Sailed from Tioman marina to Coral Island and back. Had a pit stop at the bay at the island i thought st john island was good, this was wayyy better! Simple sailing, swing mooring practice and we skipped lunch to snorkel at the bay! Super awesome!
Lucas Day 543!Breakfast By Riverside Cafe!Our Hotel!Sailing to Coral Island!Snorkelling at Coral Island!RZ is snorkelling!!!Corals! Impressive but dead!Corals! Impressive but dead!Back for dinner! Kway Teow Pattaya!Trip round Coral Island!Men’s talk!
After crossing Horsburgh Lighthouse, it was 1am in the morning, took over from the other team and sailed till 6am to be mear Pulau Aur, south of Tioman before taking a quick rest and woke up to prepare breakfast at 9am. Finally reached Tioman at 2pm! The water is crystal and clean! Cleared immigration and had a rest for the day! So tired!
Started the day at Changi Sailing Club where we did passage planning to Tioman and practiced swing mooring on the boat. Finally cleared customs at Frontier buoy and practiced man overboard using sail instead of power. Finally headed to Tioman at about 5pm. Headed over the TSS to batam side then to Horsburgh light house before heading north.
Sailed through the night and only reached the next day afternoon at 2pm.
Survived day 1 and day 2 was travelling from Keppel Marina to Changi Sailing Club via Ubin and Tekong. Also practiced alongside with the technique to use bowspringto hold the boat while in forward tick so that the stern will propel outwards and we switch to neutral with a burst of reverse before reversing.
Starting the coastal skipper today. Reached the marina early.
Did a tight manoeuvre practice to do a turn in tight space (e.g marina) trick is to hard to port/starboard as boat is moving forward then switch to reverse gear, boat will slow and also turn at the same time. When boat is coming to a stop do a forward burst of 2-3 secs before switching to neutral then reverse again then boat will continue turning on the spot. Quite a neat trick!
Also practiced reversing boat into markings in transit (forms a line to show you are inline with the items in transit) and tacks and gybes.
At the marina! Wonder if we will sail Venture or Endeavour…
Welcome goodie bag! A cap, polo shirt and a waterproof bag.
Lunch with the group!
Sailing!
Lucas day 539 recovering from Fever!
Snacks while sailing
Dinner and piloting discussion for tomorrow. I got the first leg to pilot out of keppel to east coast!
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Princess Diana
Breakfast before heading off back home!Heading off! Good bye Penang!A&W Chicken is no good…Bah Kut Teh…Lucas Day 529!!!