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S/V Rutea: April 2015
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Friday, April 24, 2015. I shouted, HARD RIGHT! Ruthie spun the wheel quickly and we were able to miss an almost certain disaster by a few feet. The islands are thickly covered with palm trees and a thin strip of sand separates the water from the trees. The water does not have the visibility that we were used to in the Maldives but I have been able to see several large reef sharks from Ruteas deck, which is always a good sign. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Our breeze held up almost all day yesterday and we mad...
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S/V Rutea: July 2015
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Monday, July 13, 2015. Abandoned Resort is at the Beach. It was great to have the company of Mark and Rosie on their Fraser 41, Merkava,. As we sailed across the Indian Ocean. We were never more than a half-dozen miles apart and always within VHF radio range. Their arrival off the coast of Nosy Lakandava, a small island just a few miles off shore of the country of Madagascar, was worthy of a standing ovation, which we were happy to provide. Saying, “It’s time for a cocktail! One particularly fun place to...
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S/V Rutea: May 2014
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Sunday, May 11, 2014. Long Tails at Dawn - Koh Rok Nok, Thailand. Ruthie and I were a little anxious as we went to clear out of Malaysia in Talaga Bay but we needn’t have been. All of the government officials we had dealings with in Malaysia were very relaxed and details to them didn’t appear to be very important. With port clearance papers in hand, we headed northwest on a fine, breezy afternoon for Ko Lipe ( Ko. In Thai means ‘island’), about 23 miles away. It continued to blow as we left early the fol...
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S/V Rutea: June 2014
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. At her berth at Yacht Haven Marina. The water is so warm in Phang Nga Bay that sea life grows at an amazing rate. If I want to keep Rutea. In a ready-to-sail-at-a-moments-notice condition, I need to dive down and scrape the barnacles off her prop at least once every three weeks. So, after one of these excursions to Rutea’s. Underside, I suggested that we cast off the dock lines and do some exploring of the bay that we’re anchored in. As we had left somewh...
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S/V Rutea: November 2013
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Friday, November 1, 2013. We learned through the cruiser’s grapevine that you don’t want to stay in. Even one day past your cruising permit’s expiration. However, the new marina where we had luckily booked a berth couldn’t get us in until a day after our cruising permit expired but as our luck would have it, we were able to secure a reservation for a berth at the. For the one night. Leaving the 5-star luxury resort on. Is the second busiest shipping port in the world (. No sooner had we arrived in the.
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S/V Rutea: February 2014
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Thursday, February 6, 2014. One of my favorite lines in the movie. Dances With Wolves takes places when Lieutenant John Dunbar (played by Kevin Costner) is traveling west with Timmons, the meatheaded mule train driver (played by Robert Pastorelli) come across a human skeleton. Timmons looks at the skeleton, snorts and says, “There’s probably folks back home saying, ‘Why don’t he write? Hoisting the Malaysia Courtesy Flag. The passage from Singapore to Malaysia, although intense, was only 24 hours long.
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S/V Rutea: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. This post is being written out of sequence. We arrived in Chagos on the 22nd of April and departed on the 22nd of May, 2015. With no internet access in the uninhabited Salomon Atoll, I wanted to wait until I could post photos. At Anchor Near Pakia Tea. Photo by Tom Puchner. At one point, there were inhabitants at. Le Boddam and there are still ruins and a dilapidated cemetery as testimonies to their existence. Sundowners at the 'Yacht Club'.
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S/V Rutea: February 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015. Its 7:42 am and the anchor is down in the Maldives! Had a beautiful sail our last night out under brilliant stars and a soft breeze. The water is that South Pacific sapphire blue and we even had the company of dolphins playing in the bow wake for a while! We are waiting for Customs and Immigration to visit Rutea and then we will do some exploring. All is well aboard Rutea. PS I made a mistake in my last post! I put the rope around a winch! There are no wenches on Rutea! We have...
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S/V Rutea: Arrival!
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Friday, April 24, 2015. I shouted, HARD RIGHT! Ruthie spun the wheel quickly and we were able to miss an almost certain disaster by a few feet. The islands are thickly covered with palm trees and a thin strip of sand separates the water from the trees. The water does not have the visibility that we were used to in the Maldives but I have been able to see several large reef sharks from Ruteas deck, which is always a good sign. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Link to Corie's Blog. Was built in 1984 by ...
