The Princesses Birthday

Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Fri 22 Jul 2016 03:17
RLYC geared up for the birthday party of Tunka Puteri, the king’s daughter.  She is 50, doesn’t look it and is unmarried.  She has a nice big catamaran in the marina not far from where I am.  The party is set up around the pool which means that cruisers like me have to walk straight through the party as is lies on the direct path from the bar to the marina berths.  No problem and no obvious security among many Royals and the prime minister.

An Aussie beside me is organizing  a mini cruise for about six or seven days around the islands.  But we are waiting for a weather window.  A system blew through a couple of days ago and one boat recorded 49 knots; a squall admittedly but it did blow over 30 knots for much of the day.  Not what you want in a confined anchorage.

In the meantime we took his dinghy on an excursion around a small island beside us.  But the big thing for me now is Brexit.  When I first came to Malaysia last November there were 6.5 Ringgit to the pound.  Now just 5.2.  My contract to ship the boat to the Mediterranean (Turkey, would you believe) is in US$.  At the time of signing $1.50 to the pound, now 1.30.  Maybe I should not have spent so much on my re-fit and overland trip…

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