K'Gari. Voyage of adventure , to the horizon and beyond........: Singapore to Port Dickson. May 2016

Nine days in Singapore, at the marina with no room!

"no room at the inn" - well apart from this space!

During this time, the watermaker man has been down and confirmed all is well with the system. Tick.

The leak of coolant from the thermostat has been fixed , under warranty. Tick.

One intrepid adventurer, Steve, has departed and another arrived, both needing the appropriate, correctly and timely lodged paperwork , and use of our engaged agent to supply same. Trouble free -if not cost free, experience!

The crew is still three. Roz, has joined us. This will be a new experience sailing on a catamaran, after all those years on the monohull.
I should say, Peter appears to have come over from the 'darkside'. That seemed to happen quite soon after the first adventure from Vietnam.

Whilst waiting for the water maker man and the thermostat man, we did a spot of electrical shopping for "gadget guy".and generally relaxed.

Gadget guy (well his head at least) and his handywork

Gadget guy Peter, a handy electrical man in his other life , fitted two fans in the saloon one morning.I should have had them fitted during construction, but figured that when at anchor I would be sitting to the prevailing breeze anyway , so just open the huge and magnificent windows.
Problem with that strategy, as I now realise is, that it rains a lot in his part of the world in the SW monsoon season. That precludes the opening of the windows. When its not raining, there is quite often absolutely no breeze at all, so in either scenario, something is needed to circulate the air.I had brought them up from Oz , so that they would match all the other fans on board, knowing that there would somewhere ,over the next few months, be a day when they could fitted.

Tuas Bridge connecting two countries. 1.9km long opened in 1998

We were at a marina on the western side of Singapore. Just near the Tuas bridge ,which is one of the two connecting roads between Singapore and Malaysia.The other being the Causeway, on the northern side,which the Japanese cycled across in 1942 to take Singapore.
To depart Singapore- (yes, just as convoluted as the arrival), all we needed to do was have the appropriate paperwork lodged by the agent, pay the agent for his services, get a port clearance ( this comes from the marina), and then take all those crew departing and K'Gari back to the same Quarantine and Immigration we had spent those 6.5 hrs in previously. There would be just that 15 mile trek to get the boat there.
Three hours to get there and three minutes after entering the Q+I anchorage, passports in and out of the net routine again , and we were free to go.

Back tracking around Singapore- never mind the traffic

As were heading north up the West coast of Malaysia , we then back tracked at least 12 of the 15 miles , to a position we had been in 5 hours earlier and could now escape from Singapore, back into Malaysian waters.