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Bruce in bangkok

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 03:27:49 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

No Bruce, from New Zealand, through South East Asia, the Red Sea, Med, Caribbean and Pacific.

I am now heading back home to Malaysia and then hopefully up to Japan
to meet up there with another solo sailor friend (Jack Curley on
Kulkuri) who is in the San Bas Islands of Panama at the moment. I'm
looking forward to not having to do the, every few weeks, 8 - 9 hour
flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur any more.

8 hours is astonishingly rapid if the alternate is 2 weeks on a small
boat :-)

I have been been working for a couple of years, getting my son into university,
getting a divorce (wonderful institution sometimes though painful) and
in refurbishing this boat and its gear. All provisions are aboard with
cans labelled and vanished etc. I am now almost ready to depart again.
Just need to complete a few finishing details and gather the courage
to head back out into the open sea. It's always a bit scarey and
daunting if you've been at anchor for a while. It would be nicer with
a compatible friend but unfortunately all friends have jobs or
commitments and my Malaysian friends' kids and nephews, who've spent
their school holidays with me on the boat in Sydney and who would love
to sail with me, have school. Perhaps when I get to Manila, Palawan or
Sabah, I can have the kids for the school holidays. It would be nice
to sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time and having great company
will be a big plus.

Did you sell the yacht you were working on ( in Phuket if I remember correctly)?

Yup. I finally faced the reality that I wasn't going to make any more
long cruises and sold the sailboat. Interestingly, I got about the
same number of US dollars as I had paid Singapore dollars for the boat
12 years before.

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Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok