Passion for Cruising

We sailed to P Lankayan, catching a rather large barracuda on the way, and stayed 2 nights, another great snorkel, seeing many fabulous coloured fish. On the 9th we left there at 5.45am, just dawn, a great 15kt breeze at 60 degrees, and covered the first ten miles in 1hour 15 minutes. 64 miles for the day to P Banggi
On the tenth, anchor up at 6.16am, after a night with two short sharp, but noisy storm squalls. Little sleep. Covered 23 miles only to the northern tip of Borneo, Kg Gumandang, wind hard on the nose. It was not worth starting down the west coast of Borneo as the seas would be awful with wind on the nose and current of 1.8kts against . We will wait 24hrs and see if the weather changes.
11th September, Still at anchor, wind still strong SW, too much on the nose for the distance to go. A major repair needed as well, the stitching and webbing on the main let go at the head. Stuart has now spent hours re stiching and re webbing as a temporary measure. The whole sail now needs a full repair and all webbing etc replaced. We hope to hang on until Phuket, where Mr Ket did an excellent repair on both headsails earlier this year, also much cheaper than Taskers.