We made our way past Singapore and up to the Danga Bay marina. This would be the first marina stop since last April and having traveled approximately 4500 miles. Kathy was really looking forward to having the use of a hose to wash everything. A real benefit to the marin was it's low cost FREE ! The marina has been in existence for a couple of years but as it is not finished there is no charge for slips.
The check-in proceedures to a new country were easily carried out and we were ready to get busy cleaning and fixing all that we could. As we don't spend lots of time marina bound when we in one we look at it as work time.
For three weeks we kept busy. The decks were scrubbed, stainless polished, canvas re-sowen dinghy repaired, inquires were made regarding repair of the water maker, cushions cleaned, fuel taken on etc. etc. Prior to leaving I even managed to jump in the water that more resembled weak tea to clean the barnacles from the propeller.
We had joined a rally, "Sail Malaysia" for the passage up the west side of the Malay peninsula to Langkawi. The rally included three stops in between, so to keep to a somewhat schedule we made our departure from Danga marina on 8 Nov. The best part was having to pay only 13 ringet, about $4 US for electricity used.
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