Well we're still here waiting to get hauled out in the yard to fix our strut... It's been over three weeks and we feel like we're fighting an up hill battle with the yard, they keep putting us off due to higher paying jobs being more important than us even though they arrived later!!...and yes they did tell us this themselves. In five years of cruising this is probably the worse we've been treated in a place we least expected it.
We're constantly being promised that we'll be the next boat out and yet we've watched a constant stream of yachts going up and down! When we question them on the day we're supposed to get hauled they just tell us to come back in a couple of days time and they'll see what they can do...amazing! If we'd have known it would have taken this long we could have done some inland travel or even flown home for a visit, as it is we're constantly worried about time and money as this is not a cheap Marina. The yard manager also told us to have the new Strut Fed Exed in as soon as possible from the states as this will speed things up and we'll be out as soon as the package arrives...it arrived three weeks ago and here we are still waiting.
On a good note we really can't complain about the marina itself, every morning we have the Singapore straits newspaper delivered to the boat, The pool and gym are fantastic and there's even a bowling alley. To get to the city we take a free shuttle bus to the MRT (mass rapid transport) station which is a train and underground system that takes us anywhere we want to go downtown. The food is the best we've had in a very long time and if you buy it in the mall's food courts it's also really cheap....with a mix of Chinese, Indian and Malaysian it tastes so good! So here's to getting stuck in yet another Paradise.
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