Getting Ready

Tiger Balm on Tour
Gordon Millar & Colette Mullins
Wed 11 Nov 2009 09:14
We have spent the last week since we arrived back in Langkawi preparing Tiger Balm for departure.  So far so good.  Worst job was cleaning the props and the keel cooler.  Although we usually "bag" them when we lay up the boat it seems the environmental lobby got me.  The bags I used must have been bio-degradable, so when I dived on the boat this morning they had gone, and by the thickness of coral and size of the clams growing on them they didn't last long!  After about 3 hours of serious scraping the main engine and wing engine props are now clean and the keel cooler is nice and shiny.  Engine runs were fine with all the temperatures nice and low - thank goodness.  Just waiting ofr the dinghy to be returned from the repair shop and we should be ready for the off next Monday.