We made it!! After seven days on the move we are now anchored in the beautiful Langkawi islands just south of the border between Malaysia and Thailand. We had a great trip up and were able to sail most of the way, the first few nights we anchored up behind small islands but the last two nights we just kept on going. On the final night the weather turned bad on us and we had to beat into head winds and big seas while trying to avoid the hundreds of fishing boats with two mile long nets strung out across our path! It took both of us to keep a watch and try and figure out where one net would end and the next begin, if we got caught in one of the nets at night we'd have been in serious trouble in rough seas in the dark.
Luckily we avoided that situation and at 4am yesterday morning we dropped anchor in a very peaceful anchorage off one of the Southern Langkawi Islands. The engine is working perfectly although we have a little wobble in the propeller shaft which we'll look into more here and the packing in the stern tube that was put in by the yard was much too tight so Jimmy had to remove some of it underway. Other than that we are very happy with her performance!
Yesterday afternoon we moved around to the town of Kuah where we checked in with customs, Immigration and the Port Captain. They're all located at the end of the ferry terminal and it was one of the smoothest check-in's we've ever done, very quick and best of all - Free! We had just enough time afterward to head into town to pick up some duty free rum and Chocolate!...Langkawi is a Duty free port which means while we here we can buy as much duty free as we like and alcohol and Chocolate seems to be very popular here with about twenty different shops selling mostly that. We picked up a one litre bottle of Captain Morgan rum and three bars of Toblerone Chocolate for just US$10!!
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