"Bruce in bangkok" wrote in
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I'm a big fan of redundancy in all things.

Indeed! That's probably the reason you have two boats
that never go anywhere? You are a fan of taking up two
slips with unused toys?

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Sir Gregory

Hi Bruce,
I have just come back to this group.

Nice to see that you are still around.

I've been refurbishing my now 20 year old boat here in Sydney following my curcumnavigation and am about to leave again heaing back to Malaysia via the Philippines this time.

Ciao,
Peter Hendra
N.Z. Yacht Herodotus

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:57:23 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Hi Bruce,
I have just come back to this group.

Nice to see that you are still around.

I've been refurbishing my now 20 year old boat here in Sydney following my curcumnavigation and am about to leave again heaing back to Malaysia via the Philippines this time.

Ciao,
Peter Hendra
N.Z. Yacht Herodotus

Hmmm... A circumnavigation from south to north :-?

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Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok

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.

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)?

Ciao
Peter
N.Z. Yacht Herodotus

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

"Bruce in bangkok" wrote in message
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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.

So Bruce finally admits he's a has-been wannabe. ROFLOL!

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Sir Gregory