At the moment, Feb 2011, we are up the top of Thailand near the Myanmar border. Few tourists and clear water make it very appealing. We will however be heading south in the next week or so and have to do a visa run ( flight ) to Penang.

After that we will put the boat into Yacht Haven marina where we are going to have a new teak and ash floor fitted while Sue completes her dental work with crowns and implants.

Later in March some friends from Aust. will be visiting and we will slowly head down to Langkawi where we will leave the boat for 2 months while we return to Aust. We return in early June and, as it is the SW monsoon, will probably do some land travelling, a month away, a month on the boat until Sept when we head across to England for 6 weeks, courtesy of some cheap flights with Air Asia.

On our return it will be the transition season over here and we can start sailing again. We are not sure where we will go but we may head further south and explore more waters in Indonesia, just south of Singapore in the Lingga group of islands. We think we will join the Borneo rally in May 2012 and cruise the eastern states of Malaysia. After that we really dont know, but have pretty much given up the idea of sailing to the Med. given all of the pirate activity on route to the red sea. We did price putting Mandolin WInd onto a yacht carrying ship for transport to Turkey but the quote was $US61,000 so that was out of the question.

However who knows what will happen and we change our plans constantly, ( as you do ! ) Check out our log pages to see what really happens to the best laid plans of mice and men !!!!