03:27.49S 110:01.48E

Noon on the second day (13 Oct).  We have sailed 144 miles in the last 29 hours and have 111 miles to go to the mouth of the river at Ketapang on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo).

We were ready to depart at 0600 on 12 Oct, but only finally left Karimun Jawa at 0700 after taking an hour to pull up 65m of anchor chain by hand.  As we departed so the Raymarine chart plotter began playing up, switching itself off and back on.  A very frustrating day and night re-setting this until Mike, having spoken to Carol by satellite phone, plucked up the courage to do a factory reset.  Carol is the expert at this particular manoeuvre but it proved not as difficult as Mike had feared.

Another night surrounded by fishing boats and particularly squid boats in the middle of the Java Sea.  The record during the night was 51 boats within sight.  The squid boats carry an large number of very bright lights, which makes them easy to see, but so many lights, so many colours sometime and so bright that it impossible to see if they are moving, which way and what is bow and stern.

The sea around the SW corner of Kalimantan is very shallow, 25m and less, while the bottom is marked as “sand waves”.  The smoke caused by the forest fires on Kalimantan has been cleared by very heavy rain storms over Kalimantan yesterday (luckily not at sea where we are, although Tashi Delek could do with a very good fresh water wash).  We hope to arrive around midday tomorrow and have been told to expect an escort boat to come and guide us up the river to anchor opposite the town.  The other boats who have already arrived say that everyone is very excited about the fleet arriving as they have never had yachts like ours in the river before.  We have also been told to expect a surprise on arrival on the dock!