Category: Sailing in South East Asia
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Land travel and new sailing adventures
Our sailing adventures over for 2017, we embarked on some land travel in November, leaving Bali Hai on the hard standing in Rebak Marina, Langkawi, in Malaysia. Bali Hai goes on “her holidays” First stop was a flying medical visit to the island of Penang where we also met up with yachtie friends from Charon…
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The romantic tale of a recaltricant engine and a happy love match
Penuba, one of the stops in the 2015 Sail2ndonesia Rally, is a small, sleepy town on Pulau Selayar in Riau Province. We had been made very welcome there during the rally and had enjoyed staying in its well protected and deep harbour which had been highly prized by the Dutch well over a century earlier. …
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Andaman Islands here we come!
We had planned to leave Thailand for Port Blair in the Andaman Islands – the furthest outpost of India that allows visiting yachts – on Friday 17 February. This would have given ample time for provisioning and last minute service checks for the three yachts travelling together – Yantara, Smart Choice and Bali Hai and…
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The “Joy” of giving
Our friends had left but we had so enjoyed our time on Koh Yao Noi with them that we decided to stay on for another couple of days. A beautiful view of karsts, a long tail and Bali Hai To get around the island you really need to hire motor bikes which was what we…
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Six go exploring in Koh Yao Noi and discover the secrets of Sabai Corner
It was a grey and rainy day on the first day of our friends’ visit to spend time with us on the good ship Bali Hai so we decided that wheeled transport on land was the way to go to allow the six of us to explore the island of Kao Yao Noi. We hired…
Salty tales from Bali Hai on Sunday 