Approaching Sandakan - again!

Tiger Balm on Tour
Gordon Millar & Colette Mullins
Sun 10 Apr 2011 07:25
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Berhala Island in sight, and just 3.5 miles until we anchor outside the yacht club at Sandakan.  Have a life raft problem that needs to be sorted tomorrow in Sandakan so we are back a day earlier than planned.  We discovered after a rough passage a couple of dyas ago that the liferaft container was leaking coloured fluid.  We suspect that the water in the survival pack has leaked and activated the sea dye marker.  As it was only serviced in Labuan a month ago, we contacted the company and they agreed to send a technician to Sandakan to check it out.  Hopefully no damage to the raft - it is very expensive to repalce!