Malaysia, Boat Projects

DANGA BAY 01'23N 103'43E

Our first project here has been to get our newly aquired air conditioner mounted and get the interior of the boat cooled off. Now boats are not designed for window mounted units so a bit of fabricating had to be done. After placing the unit in the main saloon hatch we then had to make a cover to keep the rain out.

As ours is a U.S. boat our shore power wiring is for 110 volts not the 240 of the rest of the world.
I'm sure this setup does not meet any code but it works. One drawback to being able to keep the interior temperature down at a "cool" 84 degrees is we tend to turn into moles and not venture outdoors.

Once the air was working it was no problem keeping Kathy happy as she worked on her sewing projects. As with all the other jobs we never seem to truly finish. You just make repairs to things you made several years ago or find something new to construct.

There may not be a lot of floor space but we manage. On new construction I do the design and Kathy the stitching. Here she is working on the cover to seal the air conditioner to the main hatch.

Of course there are outside jobs that need to be taken care of too. Several years ago we learned that by painting our exterior canves sunshades with a latex type house paint we could extend there life. This has been my recent job. Due to the outside temps being in the mid 90's, yesterday I suffered a bit of heat stroke; today I started at 0700 and quit the outdoor stuff at 1000. This will have to be my routine when I come back from the states and continue on the never ending list of jobs.

As you can see here as we enjoy margarita's on friends John and Jan's boat in Langkawi before heading down to Danga Bay our life is not all work.

We are now in countdown mode, 5 more days, for our trip back to Southern California. It's been 3 years since our last visit to family and friends. I'll attempt to keep the blog updated from there but for a while there will be no sea stories.