Dinner With Elise And Lars And Flying Back To Europe.

 Dining with Elise and Lars the evening before I flew back to Europe via Ipoh, Singapore and Frankfurt airports. This is the meal for Lars and I costing EUR 5 each.

 Arriving in Frankfurt in heavy rain and loads of snow at 3.800 m altitude. Again the A380 is a great airplane.

S/Y New Dawn Now Stands Steady: Hauling Out At Marina Pangkor.

S/Y New Dawn Now Stands Steady: Hauling Out At Marina Pangkor. First time for me with a Sea Lift. Had strong side wind and was a tense experience, but all went fine. But right now we have another Gale with 34 kn wind. Glad to be on the hard now.

The Plotter shows my route from when we went to the Hospital and on to Yacht Haven Marina in Phuket in Thailand and back to Pangkor in Malaysia.

 After 16 months in this warm water the hull was relatively clean, but the anodes, propeller and ground plates were a mussel farm.

 Ops.... one bar missing. Have to remember to get another one produced.

Ready for hibernating.

Marina Island Pangkor

 Another nice sunset over Pangkor Island.

 Dining at the Marina with Elisa and Lars from S/Y Nanok.

Sailing South From Phuket To Marina Island Pangkor.

The area is littered with small islands and high rock formations sticking out of the shallow sea. Many interesting shapes. And there are thousand of them. Its Limestone, I believe.

  Some places are beautiful. Courtesy of the Guide.

 I never like when these boats come too close. I was prepared, just in case.....

 Managed to get to a nice bay on the north side of Langkawi Island, Malaysia before sun set. A long days sail.

 Paul and Lilian from CH in their Amel 46 was here and we had a good chat. I met them in Indonesia several times.

 Here I am approaching Telaga Marina and there were a lot of trawlers to watch out for. I was amazed to see the big size and the amount of fish they caught. I never caught any since Australia.

 Here people pay to get a short up and down sail at Telage Harbor. Lots of drinking and singing...........

 A wonderful anchorage at the south island of Langkawi waiting for the wind.

 Arrived well in Marina Island Pangkor.

  A wedding at the Marina. Huge thing, but strange way in an European view.

 New Dawn being prepared for the haul out.

 Sunset over Pangkor Island seen from the deck of New Dawn.