Day 35, Year 5: The Thing-a-mee Around the Moon
Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Weather: Beautiful Day with Blue Skies
Location: Rebak Marina, Pulau Rebak, Langkawi, Malaysia
I love the Brits and the Aussies out here. They always have such wonderfully descriptive phrases to describe what is happening in the world, and tonight it was ‘the thing-a-mee around the moon.’ Indeed, there is a huge halo around the almost full moon. My dad always said that kind of halo meant snow was coming, but since I know absolutely we are getting no snow, I’ll go with what the locals here say. They tell me that we are in for a couple of days of thunder, lightening, and rain. I much prefer the blue skies of today, but I might have to put up with rainy weather for a few days.
Today was a busy one. We knew we needed to pick up our main sail and new sail cover, but we couldn’t get a rental car. So we went in on the 9:30 ferry and hooked up with Mike and Helen on Piping Shrike. They agreed to let us ride into town with them and they actually took us all the way out to Langkawi Yacht Club where we needed to start our day. We picked up a charger we have been trying to sell through the second hand boat shop there, as we have a buyer here at Rebak. We had hoped to pick up our Monitor wind vane once we move the boat to Kuah, but we found out this morning that the shop owners of Nautical Bits are going to be out of town for a few days, so we also made arrangements to pick up that item. By noon we had picked up everything and headed back to the Rebak Marina ferry terminal. We didn’t catch the 12:30 ferry, but as soon as we arrived a second ferry magically appeared.
We spent the afternoon putting up the main sail, met Shirena at the pool and then had dinner at the Hard Dock with Rendezvous Cay and Free Bird. All of us are leaving here in the next couple of days, but we will reconnect in Thailand. We plan to spend tomorrow getting ready to leave and then head to Kuah by boat on Wednesday to do the last minute provisioning and check out for Thailand.
Lima 2009 is happening here in Langkawi this week. It is an aerospace and maritime show. We met a young man from Missouri on the ferry ride back out here this afternoon. He is with the US Navy and is stationed in Japan, but he flys all over the globe to check and repair US Navy ships. Evidently some of them are here for the show. Very interesting!
