A journey from New Zealand to Norway by two rookies in a 50 year old sailing boat

A journey from New Zealand to Norway by two rookies in a 50 year old sailing boat

fredag 23. oktober 2009

This one's for Claude!

...or: how we reached Malacca and Egil's new look

We've reached the ancient and super-historic trading city of Malacca. Awesome little place. Plenty of Malaysian, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, Arabian and Chinese history here.
Most other people sailing up the Malacca strait do it in dayhops and anchor at night because of all the traffic and fishing boats. However we didn't think it looked much worse than what we've already seen in Indonesia, so we pushed on through the night and thereby cut the passage by 24 hours or so. The only problem was a lack of wind most of the way, but hey: diesel is cheap as chips here and we have expanded our fuel-capacity by 80 liters, adding 2x40l jerrycans. Now we can motor for about ten days straight. We might need it up the red sea!

2 kommentarer:

  1. it 's really a pain tp met a comment on your website. you could have taken it in english buddy! the last i put didn't go trough for some reasons
    this flag looks awesome :-)
    cheers bro
    defenitely the best picture you've published !!!
    ;-)

    SvarSlett
  2. Loving the new look Egil! Makes me think of sleazy french 60's softporn.. back when they actually had a storyline and handy hunks with huge mustaches.

    SvarSlett