Friday 25 December 2015
Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas! We hope you have a lovely day, wherever you are, whatever you have planned. We are in Langkawi, Malaysia and enjoyed a fabulous ‘pot luck’ dinner ashore with fellow cruisers last night. Christmas day we’ve been for a morning walk and then Tom did a champagne breakfast and next we are headed…
Sunday 20 December 2015
Months back Chris Beeson at Yachting Monthly sent us a list of questions to answer about our experiences with anchoring. Chris has combined our answers with input from seven others and turned it into the article ‘How to anchor like an expert’ just published in the January 2016 edition of Yachting Monthly. And we have…
Monday 14 December 2015
Having berthed Adina in Puteri Harbour marina situated in the river that separates Singapore and Malaysia, we welcomed Part II of ‘Catch up with the parents’ when Tom’s father Keith arrived for a visit. Southern Malaysia and Singapore don’t really lend themselves to sailing unless mixing it up with assorted cargo ships and fuel tankers…
Saturday 28 November 2015
Singapore marked a big milestone for Adina; back in April we’d set off from a cyclone-scarred Vanuatu and sailed north passing through the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and then on to Indonesia, our target to make Singapore by November. Without doubt this year has been the highlight of our round the world trip…