TWO MORE WEEKS IN MIRI

The life raft has gone in for a service, the stainless steel has gone on to hold the headsail in place – that, we had to get done twice. The first stainless man didn’t do it in thick enough stainless and charged us 80RM but the second stainless man did a great job with thick stainless and charged us 20RM! The bimini has been repaired and new clears put in, forward navigation lights rewired, the winches have been serviced, the alignment of the prop shaft has been refigured and the engine has been serviced. The oil pressure sender unit has been put in and our CAIT paperwork to allow us to go through Indonesia has arrived. And we finally took our cushions up to the canvas man and hopefully they will be back some time this week looking either a million dollars or really really bad – it was a bold choice of cover!!! But it hasn’t all been hard work – last Sunday Cilantro called us around 4pm and said they were out the back of the market with a lot of local people drinking beer at 4 cans for 10RM ($3.33) so of course we joined them and had a good session. There are also lots of little eateries there. James spent some time “talking” to the deaf and mute men at the next table and we met a man who had come in with his mate to get something to take home for dinner as it was father’s day – of course there was a bit of beer involved in that!! We then adjourned to the Indian restaurant for some tandoori chicken and naan bread. Braveheart arrived at the marina with their daughter Trish on board and Bach & Byte turned up with Russel on board which was a real surprise. The marina is really filling up and the main fleet from the Sail Malaysia rally hasn’t turned up yet. It has been incredibly hot so a few days were spent in the shopping centre in the air conditioning! A lot of people have air conditioning on their boats so it is funny you don’t see many people but around 5pm all these little heads start peeping up out of the boats! Our little grand daughter Charlie turned 2 on 13th July – HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE! We also had dinner on board Second Wind with Brian cooking up a storm – a lovely night. Braveheart have headed off on a flight to Kuala Lumpar to follow their noses (or ipad) to wherever they can find. Apart from that there is not a lot of news – just usual marina life and we still have things to do yet. Meanwhile we hope you are all well and if you aren’t then we hope you are recovering. Special love to Maureen and Ruth. And thanks to Rosie for her email!!!
Cheers and Beers and love to all
Dell and Peter