Bali Touring, Getting Ready for Christmas……Part 2 7-10 September, 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We met a few boats who would also be sailing to South Africa, but as it\’s a long long trip, we would mostly not be seeing each other. S/V \”Ainia\” with Bruce and June from Toronto (and crew of two more) […]
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27 August – 9 September, 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well, I\’d love to tell you how wonderful Bali is. Unfortunately….not so much. It\’s over crowded in Denpasar, (the main tourist area), way too much traffic and rubbish everywhere. It\’s not just that everyone smokes and throws their rubbish out the window into the street.
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25 August 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The reason we were on such a forced march to get to Bali was to attend Nikki\’s daughter\’s wedding here on this date. \”Mum\” was of course nervous, but who wouldn\’t be? We arrived early at the Royal Santrian Hotel in Nusa Dua. The venue was lovely, the
16 – 19 August 2012, Eastern Hemisphere Dear F&F, Well we arrived in Medang Marina (which wasn\’t really a marina!). The \”dock\” was completely exposed to the wind and sea and looked like a bucking pony ride at the fair. We opted for a mooring which unfortunately wasn\’t much better. The facilities were lacking to
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12 – 15 August 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, When we left Komodo, we had a nice sail across the channel to Palau Sumbawa Island. As we arrived we caught up to an old guy named Don from North Carolina. He\’s an expat whose been living on his boat based out of Bali for the
07-11 August 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The wind on the north side of the Indonesian Archipelago is very light for the most part. In between the islands, we feel the effects of the SE Trade Winds, but other than that, it\’s pretty light. Motoring is more common than sailing. We stopped at the island
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03 – 06 August 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left Kupang mid morning and motored up the Timor coast to anchor over night. This would break the trip up into two manageable day trips rather than having to sail north across the Sulu Sea all night in the shipping lanes. We found a small
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August 1-3, 2012, Eastern Hemisphere Dear F&F, We arrived at Kupang in the middle of the night and after adjusting our watches to the new time zone, were able to get a good nights sleep. The next day was quite the experience as checking into Indonesia is quite complex. The main reason I chose to
28 – 31 July 2012, Eastern Hemisphere Dear F&F, We left our anchorage for the busy starting area about an hour before the event was to begin. Several boats had left hours earlier or the day before to insure their arrival with \”the fleet\”. There were about 110 boats in the starting area and it
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28 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left the anchorage at Alcara (last we wrote), and made the trip in 11 hours, going 96 miles. This average speed was enhanced, retarded and again enhanced by the large tides in the Van Diemen Gulf and the Dundas Strait approaching Darwin. At one time while the