FUN-BOAT WORK-FUN

DANGA BAY, MALAYSIA 01'23 N 103'43E





To all of you blog followers,well I hope for at least one here is the latest. Tonight I have managed two postings so enjoy. Here is couple #1 at the opening of a new bar here in Danga Bay. Now for an opening celebration it was free beer and buffet dinner.

These guys are happy sedrving free beer and they never even get tips.

As we also got a rugby match that night, here's Capt. Ron the dockmaster playing "Waltzing
Matilda" on the harp as Oz. beat S. Africa.

John of "Scarlett O'Hara" and Heather of "Ajax"

Capt. Ron and wife Vanessa

An outdoor cafe in Singapore. Kathy and I had to make the trip to buy varnish.

650 ml Tiger beer's for $5.30 sg dollars or about $4.75 US.

Trips to Singapore are necessary to buy most boat things. Hey it's only a two hour trip each way and you get more stamps in the passport. Soon we'll need extra pages!! This is in a subway station.

Kathy ready to board the train. The rapid transit is a great way to get around and cheap.



OK, now we move on to the work section. Here are three of our five anchors. We are sending them in to be re-galvinized at $.50 a kilo/2.2lbs. CHEAP!!

Po oino Roa is an older lady built in 1979 and in need of lots of work. A major project to be done here in Danga Bay is repairing of delamination and painting of the decks. I'm about to begin.

Once repair work is done the deckis get new paint which we had to order and have maile from the states.

so if you lie on your side this photo becomes perfectly clear. OK it's the navigation station and mainelectrical panel in the process of getting new varnish.

Lots of scrapping and sanding. the best part is Kathy is the new varnish person leaving me to grind and repair fiberglass. she just needs to remember it's never the last coat and don't try to be smarter than the varnish.

It seems I do lots of wood repair work.

Hey if you can't use clamps you must improvise and figure a way.

Last of California Visit

DANGA BAY, MALAYSIA 01' 23 N 103' 43E

After another bit of a lay off I'm back with the final edition of our trip to California. so for those that know me well where would you expect the final photos to show but at least at one time
my other home. So here is a little bit of home and some of those that also reside there.

Looks to be a quiet morning

They're sorry to be open but we're not

A dog's life, why can't I join in

Local Color

Ray in back, Mike, Anna, and Walkie

Kenny and Gary

Bartender's Pat the mixologist and Steve

Now here is real local color Kathy and Chris

Scotty and ???????

Mikey
So there we have a short visit to Blackies by the Sea. As you would expect I did manage several trips but alas was without the camera or just to busy visiting with the local color.

A short three weeks after my new hip the doctor released me to fly back to the boat. It's now been a little over three months and I definitely feel and act like a new person. Kathy says I am happy again.

We know that we missed some of you back in California but we truly enjoyed seeing most of our friends and relatives.

Since getting back to the boat it has been WORK WORK WORK! That will be the subject of the next edition.

TRIP TO CALIF. THE UNPLANNED EVENT

Danga Bay





As you faithful readers know it had been three years since our last visit to the land of plenty and we had lots of things planned to do. One was a doctors visit and check-up for Jerry's hip that was replaced back in the dark ages of 1998. Looking at the x-ray the doctor said everything looked fine BUT what about this left one. So I admitted to the lack of mobility and pain that I now had in the left hip, the doctor said "I can fix that". A decision was made and eight days later I went back under the knife.





They now use a more frontal approach and super glued the incision.

Not long after surgery and a visit from Kathy. I'm a happy camper even without the morphine that I got last time.

Six hours post op and they have me up and walking with the carrot of being able to be discharged the next day.
Out of the hospital and back at Debbie Jo's house for recovery. Notice the nice socks!! As I had had similar surgery 13 years ago I could really tell a great difference in technique. Last time it was four days in the hospital, this time only 30 hours. In one week I was at the same stage that it took almost a month to reach. So now almost 8 weeks later I'm back on the boat in Malaysia and busy with all the various projects that are required.

As I said earlier it had been three years sinc our visit to the land of plenty and we felt that it was our duty to help the sagging economy. We had a list of items from boat parts to linens and whatever might fall in between.

Just the begining of the things to come.

Three of our clocks had failed over the years but thanks to a lifetime warrenty were replaced.



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I hate to think of the dollar amount of what was brought back to the boat or the influence on the waterline as on returning I had two fifty pound bags though out done by Kathy and her three fifty pounders plus a carry on. Then of course we just received another box that was mailed. The upside is we now have plenty to keep us busy for awhile.