Ocean View Marina
Samal, Is. Davao
Philippines
Last night armed terrorists entered the marina and four persons were kidnapped. We are safe and there is increased security.
At this time for more info check the internet.
Monday, September 21, 2015
Sunday, September 20, 2015
HAULED OUT
Ocean View Marina
07° 11.89 N 125° 42.615 E
Samal Is. Davao
Mindanao, Philippines
We are now and have been for the last week in the hard stand area of the marina. We came out of the water last Monday, 14 Sept. as planned. Here a cradle attached on top of a large trailer is lowered down a ramp into the water and at the appropriate high tide you drive onto the cradle.
Our draft as we now sit is a bit over two meters or 6' 7''. According to Kjarten, the yard manager, we would need a high tide of 1.7 meters to get situated on the cradle. Once you get in the cradle the workers in the water and watching with their dive masts place blocks under the keel and get the boat aligned properly. As the tide drops you are firmly set.
Next the trailer and cradle are pulled up using a treaded back hoe. Once out of the water the yard boys scrape the barnacles and scrub off any slime. No pressure washer just manual labor.
We were then maneuvered up into the yard and backed into our spot in the hard stand area. The cradle is then blocked up and the trailer removed for the next boat going in or out.
Always before on the hard it has been a ladder to climb up and down on, not a pretty thought when we may be out of the water for several months. Here several of the others confined to the hard have had actual stairs constructed. Kathy was immediately in favor of this and now after a week of climbing back and forth it is a great idea.
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07° 11.89 N 125° 42.615 E
Samal Is. Davao
Mindanao, Philippines
We are now and have been for the last week in the hard stand area of the marina. We came out of the water last Monday, 14 Sept. as planned. Here a cradle attached on top of a large trailer is lowered down a ramp into the water and at the appropriate high tide you drive onto the cradle.
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| TOMORROW WITH HIGH TIDE |
Our draft as we now sit is a bit over two meters or 6' 7''. According to Kjarten, the yard manager, we would need a high tide of 1.7 meters to get situated on the cradle. Once you get in the cradle the workers in the water and watching with their dive masts place blocks under the keel and get the boat aligned properly. As the tide drops you are firmly set.
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| THE TIDE IS HIGH |
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| SECURING THE CRADLE |
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| THE TIDE IS DROPPING |
Next the trailer and cradle are pulled up using a treaded back hoe. Once out of the water the yard boys scrape the barnacles and scrub off any slime. No pressure washer just manual labor.
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| KATHY RIDING ALONG |
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| NO POWER WASH HERE |
We were then maneuvered up into the yard and backed into our spot in the hard stand area. The cradle is then blocked up and the trailer removed for the next boat going in or out.
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| MAKING SURE WE'RE LEVEL |
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| REMOVING THE TRAILER |
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| THIS!!! |
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| OR THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN |
Always before on the hard it has been a ladder to climb up and down on, not a pretty thought when we may be out of the water for several months. Here several of the others confined to the hard have had actual stairs constructed. Kathy was immediately in favor of this and now after a week of climbing back and forth it is a great idea.
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Saturday, September 12, 2015
EARLY CHRISTMAS FOR PO OINO ROA
Ocean View Marina, Samal Is.
07° 11.89 N 125° 42.615 E
Davao City, Mindanao
Philippines
Yes, I have been quite derelict in doing any writing, I just spend most evenings reading a book or catching up on the world of sports via the internet. Since we or at least the boat has experienced an early Christmas and tomorrow we move from floating in the marina to life on the hard we are in for a busy time.
Shopping for some things, especially marine products, here in the Philippines is difficult. Instead we do lots of our buying via the internet and then using a freight forwarder have all the goodies then boxed up and transported via ship. This typically takes 6 to 8 weeks once the box is shipped. We just had two boxes arrive and another is on it's way.
As you can see most all things are for the boat not Kathy or me. Now with all of this new stuff and a very long list of things to do before we depart the Philippines early next year it is time to get busy.
We have been waiting for several things to happen before having the boat hauled from the water and starting what is known as "life on the hard". the stars have now aligned, the rigging stuff is here, there is room on the concrete and we have a favorable high tide to fit on the haul out cart.
Kathy will be driving us onto this cart tomorrow morning at high water
I at least managed a bit of an update and hope to keep more current with my writing so you can see that we do spend time other than relaxing in the sun while living the dream
07° 11.89 N 125° 42.615 E
Davao City, Mindanao
Philippines
Yes, I have been quite derelict in doing any writing, I just spend most evenings reading a book or catching up on the world of sports via the internet. Since we or at least the boat has experienced an early Christmas and tomorrow we move from floating in the marina to life on the hard we are in for a busy time.
Shopping for some things, especially marine products, here in the Philippines is difficult. Instead we do lots of our buying via the internet and then using a freight forwarder have all the goodies then boxed up and transported via ship. This typically takes 6 to 8 weeks once the box is shipped. We just had two boxes arrive and another is on it's way.
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| JUST LIKE UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE |
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| WIRING FOR THE NEW AUTO PILOT |
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| STANDING AND RUNNING RIGGING |
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| NEW BEDDING AND SEWING MATERIAL |
We have been waiting for several things to happen before having the boat hauled from the water and starting what is known as "life on the hard". the stars have now aligned, the rigging stuff is here, there is room on the concrete and we have a favorable high tide to fit on the haul out cart.
Kathy will be driving us onto this cart tomorrow morning at high water
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| WE THEN GET PULLED UP TO THE HARDSTAND AREA |
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| WE'LL BE SOMEWHERE HERE ON THE CONCRETE |
Thursday, June 25, 2015
STILL HERE!!!
Ocean View Marina, Samal Is.
07° 11.89 N 125° 42.615 E
Davao, Mindanao Is.
Philippines
YES, we're still here and I don't foresee us moving on with our planned return across the pacific for quite awhile. At least if you are stuck in a marina/boatyard this is a nice one.
The marina has two finger docks with a capacity for about fifty boats. The large concrete area is used mainly for a hard stand area. Since I took this photo not to long after our arrival the number of boats out on the hard has about doubled. Sometime in the future we'll be up there to complete some needed work. Far off to the right is the workshop and the two story building on the left has a clubhouse above with bathrooms, showers, laundry and storage below. As noted in the previous blog entry we pay about $320 for our slip including electricity and that's with the air conditioner running 15 hours a day. The clubhouse has TV, a drink cooler with beer and sodas, 30 and 12 pesos respectively. So a bottle of San Miguel is about $.66 US. There are also two chest type freezers in the clubhouse for our use.
Last Friday night BBQ we had about forty participants followed by live music provided by the musicians of the fleet. Last night we were treated to an IMAX formatted movie "Journey to the South Pacific" about The Indonesian island of Raja Ampat to which many of the current boats here will be headed to soon.
Today Kathy has been off on one of the van shopping trips to a large mall in Davao. the shoppers are transported in, SHOP, then brought back with boxes of goodies. Easy provisioning, done four times a week to a different mall and it's FREE.
OK, now on to what has been going on in the last nine weeks. The cap rail project was finally completed and the genoa track re-installed. No more leaks from there. We did find and fix a leak that has been plaguing us for quite some time. It turned out to be where the hoses for our aft shower go through a tube on the deck. Kathy has continued to work an shades and since we received our box shipped from the states, thanks again Lisa, they were able to be installed with the correct hardware.
The next major item on the list was ordering the new standing rigging, that's all the wires and fittings that hold the mast up. Not having done this before it turned into a lengthy process with emails back and forth with the vendor, Rigging Only, that we used. All of that is now in San Diego, Ca. waiting to be forwarded here along with lots of other stuff. Our next box of goodies will hopefully be shipped next week, that means arrival here in 8 to 10 weeks and then the process of completing the job. We have decided to move the boat onto the hard and have the mast pulled and painted before completing the re-rig. More of why we will extend our time here in the Philippines. As I said it's glad we like it here.
While out of the water we also now plan to remove all the build up of anti fouling paint on the bottom, check and repair any osmotic blister. We have had no blister problem before but it's always something to look out for.
Of course there are another number of things on the unending list to also finish up. the new auto pilot, wind instrument, re-do the engine oil seal etc. etc.
Living the cruising lifestyle dream sure can keep you busy. I'll attempt to be a little more regular in my posts but hey you can see we're busy on Po oino Roa.
07° 11.89 N 125° 42.615 E
Davao, Mindanao Is.
Philippines
YES, we're still here and I don't foresee us moving on with our planned return across the pacific for quite awhile. At least if you are stuck in a marina/boatyard this is a nice one.
The marina has two finger docks with a capacity for about fifty boats. The large concrete area is used mainly for a hard stand area. Since I took this photo not to long after our arrival the number of boats out on the hard has about doubled. Sometime in the future we'll be up there to complete some needed work. Far off to the right is the workshop and the two story building on the left has a clubhouse above with bathrooms, showers, laundry and storage below. As noted in the previous blog entry we pay about $320 for our slip including electricity and that's with the air conditioner running 15 hours a day. The clubhouse has TV, a drink cooler with beer and sodas, 30 and 12 pesos respectively. So a bottle of San Miguel is about $.66 US. There are also two chest type freezers in the clubhouse for our use.
Last Friday night BBQ we had about forty participants followed by live music provided by the musicians of the fleet. Last night we were treated to an IMAX formatted movie "Journey to the South Pacific" about The Indonesian island of Raja Ampat to which many of the current boats here will be headed to soon.
Today Kathy has been off on one of the van shopping trips to a large mall in Davao. the shoppers are transported in, SHOP, then brought back with boxes of goodies. Easy provisioning, done four times a week to a different mall and it's FREE.
OK, now on to what has been going on in the last nine weeks. The cap rail project was finally completed and the genoa track re-installed. No more leaks from there. We did find and fix a leak that has been plaguing us for quite some time. It turned out to be where the hoses for our aft shower go through a tube on the deck. Kathy has continued to work an shades and since we received our box shipped from the states, thanks again Lisa, they were able to be installed with the correct hardware.
The next major item on the list was ordering the new standing rigging, that's all the wires and fittings that hold the mast up. Not having done this before it turned into a lengthy process with emails back and forth with the vendor, Rigging Only, that we used. All of that is now in San Diego, Ca. waiting to be forwarded here along with lots of other stuff. Our next box of goodies will hopefully be shipped next week, that means arrival here in 8 to 10 weeks and then the process of completing the job. We have decided to move the boat onto the hard and have the mast pulled and painted before completing the re-rig. More of why we will extend our time here in the Philippines. As I said it's glad we like it here.
While out of the water we also now plan to remove all the build up of anti fouling paint on the bottom, check and repair any osmotic blister. We have had no blister problem before but it's always something to look out for.
Of course there are another number of things on the unending list to also finish up. the new auto pilot, wind instrument, re-do the engine oil seal etc. etc.
Living the cruising lifestyle dream sure can keep you busy. I'll attempt to be a little more regular in my posts but hey you can see we're busy on Po oino Roa.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
BLOGDOM RETURNS
Ocean View Marina, Samal Is.
07°11.89 N 125°42.615 E
Davao, Mindanao Is.
Philippines
It's been nine weeks since my last update but I never know how much you really want to hear about my day to day boat maintenance. I am now having a difficult time restarting this entry as just finishing we lost electricity and I lost all that I had written. The marina here is very nice but electric power can be upsetting. The marina has a generator for power outages but it takes a few minutes to come on. This laptop needs external power until a new battery arrives so I lost all that had been written.
As I said we have now been here nine weeks. Our hope was to be underway to Palau by now, then further east to the Marshall islands and then back to the west coast of North America. That's not to be!! On our arrival here due to loose rigging, I did not do enough checks on prior to leaving Cebu we had a spreader drop from it's proper position. I went up the mast to look at things and discovered broken wires in one of the intermediate shrouds. This to go with the lower that I had found prior to leaving Cebu. It has been ten years since the last re-do of the standing rigging, according to the professionals time to re-do it all. Just another little thing on the list.
Our original plan was to have the new auto pilot and other necessary things shipped here by surface freight and then head off east. Now with having to re-do all the wire it will be done in phases. We bought lots of stuff online and had it shipped to one of Kathy's old friends, Lisa, to then forward on to us. Thank you Lisa! Come visit again and remember one bag for you and one for the boat. The same goes for any of you others that want an exotic vacation. Freight shipping takes 6 to 10 weeks and so we will be here for awhile. The good news is it's relatively cheap, a 75 lb. box for $75 US.
On to what we are currently keeps us busy . I continue with work on the cap rail. I finished the starboard side prior to leaving Port Carmen and then started the port side here. Things were going well till my 67 year old back decided it did not like it with me working on my hands and knees for several hours each day. After finding a chiropractor here in Davao I hope to finish shortly. Meanwhile I have been Kathy's assistant in her sewing projects. Other than sewing Kathy keeps me clothed, fed, laundry done and a clean work environment.
The marina here is quite nice. We pay $266 US per month for moorage and now that we have added an air conditioner $56 US for electricity.
We have just added the air conditioner as temperatures in the cabin were 95° during the day. It cooled at night but with the aircon it's much nicer at 80° in the cabin during the day.
This is a very social marina. A BBQ on Friday nights with bringing a pot lock dish to share and whatever for the Barbie. All seem to participate and we have had as many as 40 enjoying the gathering. We have yachtie's from Australia, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Venezuela, USA and even crew from the Ukraine. Quite a mix.
We are on an island perhaps 2 miles from the main Philippine island of Mindanao. The marina runs 3, free, daily shuttles to the ferry if you need to go to what we consider the mainland. Every two weeks they run a shuttle to one of the big malls and transport all your purchases back to the marina.
We'll be here for awhile as I have yet to order the new rigging wire or whatever other needs there are. I will try to do a better job of updates but hey I'm busy!!!!
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07°11.89 N 125°42.615 E
Davao, Mindanao Is.
Philippines
It's been nine weeks since my last update but I never know how much you really want to hear about my day to day boat maintenance. I am now having a difficult time restarting this entry as just finishing we lost electricity and I lost all that I had written. The marina here is very nice but electric power can be upsetting. The marina has a generator for power outages but it takes a few minutes to come on. This laptop needs external power until a new battery arrives so I lost all that had been written.
As I said we have now been here nine weeks. Our hope was to be underway to Palau by now, then further east to the Marshall islands and then back to the west coast of North America. That's not to be!! On our arrival here due to loose rigging, I did not do enough checks on prior to leaving Cebu we had a spreader drop from it's proper position. I went up the mast to look at things and discovered broken wires in one of the intermediate shrouds. This to go with the lower that I had found prior to leaving Cebu. It has been ten years since the last re-do of the standing rigging, according to the professionals time to re-do it all. Just another little thing on the list.
Our original plan was to have the new auto pilot and other necessary things shipped here by surface freight and then head off east. Now with having to re-do all the wire it will be done in phases. We bought lots of stuff online and had it shipped to one of Kathy's old friends, Lisa, to then forward on to us. Thank you Lisa! Come visit again and remember one bag for you and one for the boat. The same goes for any of you others that want an exotic vacation. Freight shipping takes 6 to 10 weeks and so we will be here for awhile. The good news is it's relatively cheap, a 75 lb. box for $75 US.
On to what we are currently keeps us busy . I continue with work on the cap rail. I finished the starboard side prior to leaving Port Carmen and then started the port side here. Things were going well till my 67 year old back decided it did not like it with me working on my hands and knees for several hours each day. After finding a chiropractor here in Davao I hope to finish shortly. Meanwhile I have been Kathy's assistant in her sewing projects. Other than sewing Kathy keeps me clothed, fed, laundry done and a clean work environment.
The marina here is quite nice. We pay $266 US per month for moorage and now that we have added an air conditioner $56 US for electricity.
We have just added the air conditioner as temperatures in the cabin were 95° during the day. It cooled at night but with the aircon it's much nicer at 80° in the cabin during the day.
This is a very social marina. A BBQ on Friday nights with bringing a pot lock dish to share and whatever for the Barbie. All seem to participate and we have had as many as 40 enjoying the gathering. We have yachtie's from Australia, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Venezuela, USA and even crew from the Ukraine. Quite a mix.
We are on an island perhaps 2 miles from the main Philippine island of Mindanao. The marina runs 3, free, daily shuttles to the ferry if you need to go to what we consider the mainland. Every two weeks they run a shuttle to one of the big malls and transport all your purchases back to the marina.
We'll be here for awhile as I have yet to order the new rigging wire or whatever other needs there are. I will try to do a better job of updates but hey I'm busy!!!!
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Saturday, February 7, 2015
MARINA LIFE
Holiday Ocean View Marina
07°11.89N 125°42.615E
Samal Is. Davao
Philippines
We arrived here in the marina late afternoon on the 2nd of Feb. We are now adapting to another lifestyle change. What a compete difference from Pinoy Boat Service and all to the positive. We have modern floating docks, proper electrical connections, no sandblast dirt raining down and will wonders never cease water actually comes out of the hose more than a dribble. There is also a happy multi national yachtie fleet here and no listening to Zeke yelling about anything and everything.
On to the rest of our passage here. We departed Lapoinigan Is. on the morning of the 28th with a weather forecast of light to no winds down the east coat of Mindanao. Looking at the available anchorages we decided it would be best to do an overnight passage with the next planned anchorage at Pujada Is. prior to entering Davao gulf and the sixty miles up to the marina at the top of Samal Is. All was going well even though we were motoring along in no wind. We had a favoring current of 2 to 3 knots. At 1800 I changed over to a different fuel tank and immediately saw the filter bowl filling with water and sediment. I quickly changed back to the previous tank which I had topped up that morning from jugs on deck. If we had to continue motoring I knew this would eventually cause a problem. All was fine till 1100 the next day when Miss Perky sputtered and stopped with clogged filters. Prior to leaving Port Carmen I had run all the tank fuel through our filter system in effect polishing it but with all the rocking and rolling things got stirred up and caused our problems. While filters were cleaned Kathy managed to sail us along in the light wind conditions. Miss Perky was restarted and it was more motoring till we got anchored at Pujada Is. 06°47.84N 126°15.85E in the late afternoon.
We started early on the 30th again it was a motor to the anchorage at Tagbanao cove. We dropped the anchor on the reef shelf in 55 feet but by the time we had drifted back we were in 150 feet of water. We looked quite close to the reef edge. I woke up at 2230 and did not at all like the closeness of the reef. We were still sitting in deep water but perhaps 100 feet away the edges of the reef were visible. We decided to move! We continued north in to the Davao gulf and what looked to be another anchor spot. It was a bit hair raising moving through the local fishing boats but they did at least shine a light to let you know where they were and we had no near misses. We anchored near Limut point 06° 40.66N 126°04.85E at 0700 on the morning of the 31st.
We figured to spend the day and night there before moving on. I decided to do more fuel system maintenance. Once again using the electric fuel pump I drained the tank we were using into jugs and then poured it back in to the tank filtering it again thru a "Baja" filter. I did another 20 gallons from the contaminated take too. Now having 35 gallons in that tank I again ran it through the filter system. I wanted no more fuel issues!
On the 1st of Feb. we continued north up the gulf in to a steady headwind and current anchoring at the bottom of Samal Is. 06°53.68N 125°45.50E. We were underway again early Monday the 2nd. Once more a BASH in to 25 to 30 knot wind and an opposing current. At times we were only making 1.5 to 2 knots of headway. We managed and arrived here in the marina in the afternoon. The entrance is a bit tricky especially with the wind and swell that were running but Kathy managed without a problem and we were soon secured.
That catches things up to our arrival and manana I hope to compose the rest of our time here so far.
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07°11.89N 125°42.615E
Samal Is. Davao
Philippines
We arrived here in the marina late afternoon on the 2nd of Feb. We are now adapting to another lifestyle change. What a compete difference from Pinoy Boat Service and all to the positive. We have modern floating docks, proper electrical connections, no sandblast dirt raining down and will wonders never cease water actually comes out of the hose more than a dribble. There is also a happy multi national yachtie fleet here and no listening to Zeke yelling about anything and everything.
On to the rest of our passage here. We departed Lapoinigan Is. on the morning of the 28th with a weather forecast of light to no winds down the east coat of Mindanao. Looking at the available anchorages we decided it would be best to do an overnight passage with the next planned anchorage at Pujada Is. prior to entering Davao gulf and the sixty miles up to the marina at the top of Samal Is. All was going well even though we were motoring along in no wind. We had a favoring current of 2 to 3 knots. At 1800 I changed over to a different fuel tank and immediately saw the filter bowl filling with water and sediment. I quickly changed back to the previous tank which I had topped up that morning from jugs on deck. If we had to continue motoring I knew this would eventually cause a problem. All was fine till 1100 the next day when Miss Perky sputtered and stopped with clogged filters. Prior to leaving Port Carmen I had run all the tank fuel through our filter system in effect polishing it but with all the rocking and rolling things got stirred up and caused our problems. While filters were cleaned Kathy managed to sail us along in the light wind conditions. Miss Perky was restarted and it was more motoring till we got anchored at Pujada Is. 06°47.84N 126°15.85E in the late afternoon.
We started early on the 30th again it was a motor to the anchorage at Tagbanao cove. We dropped the anchor on the reef shelf in 55 feet but by the time we had drifted back we were in 150 feet of water. We looked quite close to the reef edge. I woke up at 2230 and did not at all like the closeness of the reef. We were still sitting in deep water but perhaps 100 feet away the edges of the reef were visible. We decided to move! We continued north in to the Davao gulf and what looked to be another anchor spot. It was a bit hair raising moving through the local fishing boats but they did at least shine a light to let you know where they were and we had no near misses. We anchored near Limut point 06° 40.66N 126°04.85E at 0700 on the morning of the 31st.
We figured to spend the day and night there before moving on. I decided to do more fuel system maintenance. Once again using the electric fuel pump I drained the tank we were using into jugs and then poured it back in to the tank filtering it again thru a "Baja" filter. I did another 20 gallons from the contaminated take too. Now having 35 gallons in that tank I again ran it through the filter system. I wanted no more fuel issues!
On the 1st of Feb. we continued north up the gulf in to a steady headwind and current anchoring at the bottom of Samal Is. 06°53.68N 125°45.50E. We were underway again early Monday the 2nd. Once more a BASH in to 25 to 30 knot wind and an opposing current. At times we were only making 1.5 to 2 knots of headway. We managed and arrived here in the marina in the afternoon. The entrance is a bit tricky especially with the wind and swell that were running but Kathy managed without a problem and we were soon secured.
That catches things up to our arrival and manana I hope to compose the rest of our time here so far.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
DAY 8 A LONG ONE
Anchor Position: 09°34.291N
125°45.723
Lapinigan Is. Top of Mindanao
Philippines
A long travel day as we could not find what we thought of as a suitable anchorage. The current through the Hinataun passage was not bad so we kept going to here behind Lapinigan. We did break the rule and arrived after dark which we seldom do.
We're off again shortly and unsure of future stops. There may be no entries for several days depending on the high frequency radio.
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125°45.723
Lapinigan Is. Top of Mindanao
Philippines
A long travel day as we could not find what we thought of as a suitable anchorage. The current through the Hinataun passage was not bad so we kept going to here behind Lapinigan. We did break the rule and arrived after dark which we seldom do.
We're off again shortly and unsure of future stops. There may be no entries for several days depending on the high frequency radio.
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