Day 27, Year 5: Never Ending Rain
Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009
Weather: Totally Overcast with Periods of Rain
Location: Rebak Marina, Pulau Rebak, Langkawi, Malaysia
The rain just keeps on coming down. We have not been having the torrential rains that we did a few days ago, but neither are we having just sprinkles. It just dibble dops off and on all day and all night. It will be two weeks tomorrow since we have had a sunny day without rain, but if the reports are correct, it could be another week before we see the sunshine. I guess I couldn’t ask for better weather to sit inside and do computer work, so no complaints here.
I am still working in the past, fixing the logs and the photos on the web to reflect the correct sailing season. Mark worked on the SailRite sewing machine today. It was only sewing a zigzag pattern as some little piece in the workings had broken. But he was able to jerry rig it so it now sews a straight pattern as well. He then made new polar fleece covers for our four fenders. Cory and Barbara of Increscent Moon were coming over for dinner tonight so we also spruced up the inside of the boat and prepared dinner. We had a wonderful evening with Cory and Barbara. It is so much fun to talk with cruisers who have the same boat as yours and compare likenesses and differences. Tomorrow we will go to town with them and then on Tuesday morning, they leave for Kuah. We are here for another week, leaving the marina on Tuesday morning, December 1. If our main sail cover is completed before then, we will leave from here for Thailand. If it is not, then we will sail to Kuah to pick up the mainsail and leave for Thailand from there as soon as the work is completed. So one way or another some time next week we hope to be headed to Thailand.
BUT before we can go, we have to make a trip to the mainland to Penang to get our Thai visas. We are hoping that one of us will do a one day flight to Penang and back to get the visas, and that will probably have to be on this Wednesday. Or we we both go by ferry on Tuesday afternoon and return on Thursday morning. And then that is Thanksgiving. Yikes! It’s a good thing I write these logs to remind us of what we need to do. We had better get busy and figure this one out.
