First, let me start out by saying I spent a good bit of time on Noonsites webpages researching Malaysia. If the website is correct, after our first 90 days, all we have to do is leave the country(flight to Singapore of Brunei) and then come right back. Boom, another 90 day visa is ours. None of this "go back to your home country and then return". That's one of the problems when you go to a consulate instead of an embassy. They don't get that many visitors to know the correct answers and sometime wing it. So problem solved. We picked up three magazines about what to see and do in Malaysia while we were at the consulate. It should be fun. One thing I found interesting is that it's forbidden to take anything into Malaysia that's made in Israel. With Malaysia being primarily a Muslim country, I guess I can understand it.

Now as to "Peyton Place". Thursday evening, one of the boaters saw his Philippino cruisemate(name has been eliminated as I have to live here so we will just call him "Bob"), kissing and hugging the unpleasant person that kicks dogs and yelled and cursed at my wife a couple of days ago(Terry--don't care who knows his name, jerk that he is). Well, this cruiser "Bob" flipped out and started on a bender drinking heaven only knows how much beer but a bunch. He wants her off his boat and gone. She, thinking he was joking just laughed it off which made it that much worse. Meanwhile, Terry has been just about invisible around the marina(darn it!). The cruiser(Bob) just kept getting drunker and drunker and told her on Friday he wants her gone. She ignored him thinking that that feeling would pass. Well, it hasn't and he tied it on again last night and is still drinking(it's now 1300). He went to his boat earlier and called her a few names and told her he wanted her gone. About 1100, we think we saw her get into the marina's taxi and take off. Not sure if she is really gone of just going away for a few days. Now Terry's(he's in his mid 70's) cruising buddy(maybe 30) is also gone. She's back visiting her family and friends back home. She has no idea what has happened. If the other young lady is truly gone, I expect there to be some stuff hitting the fan upon her return(aw gee, what a shame).
As I've written in previous posts, more than half the cruisers here travel with women far less than half their age(not me!) It's rampant here with older men showing up and latching onto very your girls(some in their late teens). I was asked by a store clerk a couple of days ago if I had taken a Philippino wife. It's the norm here I guess. Bunch of leches and perverts is more like it. Do it back home and watch what happens and the looks you will get when you go out. So that's the story of our little Peyton Place. For you young people out there, please Google it.
This morning, one of the boats that's been on the hard was backed into the water. Here, it's an amazing time consuming process but it works. They use a big ditch digger attached to a long rod that goes to the cart that the boat rests on. The wheels are what look to be those found on those big rigs used to flatten asphalt only smaller. To get it into the water, they have to make a 90 degree turn. Once they get it backed up that far, they use pipes and boards to slowly push one end over using them as a lever under the cart. Then they use a block and tackle to slowly back the boat in as the ditch digger won't fit in front of the boat after it makes it's turn. In all, it takes about 3 hours to make it into the water and just about all day to get a boat out of the water as the manager is extremely careful, diving on the boat that is coming out to make sure the braces are in the right place. It's an amazing way to do it and it works great. they have taken boats out here that few other marinas can.
The picture is of the sign outside the Malaysian Consulate. No wonder we didn't see it.