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We finally made it back to Lumut & Pankor Marina Island.
Lift out was booked for Thursday .
Sealift broke down rescheduled for Saturday.
Sat morning had a big thunder storm that went on till mid afternoon, so lift now Sunday.
Lifted on Sunday with no problems.
What a luxury they parked us on the ashfelt roadway not the dirt.

Monday got rental car & moved into apartment in Lumut, RM 900 a month = AUD $300 +rm100 for pay tv + electricity.
Photo is view from apartment balcony.

Will not go into all the detail of work
1/ rebuild both gearboxes
2/ rebuild anchor windlass & sandblast & repaint
3/ remove nyalic clear coat from hull & cockpit paint 25 man days &
100 ltr of thinner
4/ remove old anti foul 9 man days
5/ remove & repair 1 exhaust through hull
6/ remove & replace 3 stainless (316) through hulls (DO NOT USE
316 BELOW WATER LINE)
7/ repair several minor deck leaks
8/ teak deck sand & repaint
9/ repair & repaint damage to hull from JetSki hitting boat
10/ repair & repaint Impact damage to hull from hitting rubbish in
Water
11/ repair & repaint 30 odd small chips to paint work
12/ replace old windlass solenoid that stopped working after
was reinstalled
13/ polish all paintwork
14/ polish all stainless steel
15/ remove all anchor chain from boat & put back after work
Complete
16/ source shade cloth & put extra layer on window covers
17/ get cover made for dinghy to stop sun eating flotation
18/ repaint with new anti foul

Some of the above took days or weeks to complete so many jobs going at same time.
Plus many small jobs not listed
Anticipated 1 month but as is the norm for boats on the hard it was double the estimate & I consider myself lucky that it was completed in 2 months.
The relaunch was delayed by 1 week when I discovered 3 days before launch the windlass solenoid was dead & had to order a new one from Australia, had pleasant surprise that it was significantly cheaper than expected.

The labour alone would have cost in excess of AUD $40,000 in Australia which for us would not be affordable.
The whole Job including handstand, rental car, flat & materials cost less than AUD $15,000
So I guesstimate that we did it for about 25% of the cost in Australia
If you have a boat & are in the Malaysia area I highly recamend Marina Isand in Lumut.

Soraya was relaunched on 16-8-18
Spent 4 days in Marina sorting out minor issues like leaks a final clean.
Fill up with fuel & water , last minute provisioning.

The last week was an exception in that the delay allowed it to be rather leasurely.
Far from the usual imitation of a blue arsed fly

We really enjoyed our time in the area made many friends with the locals, & were welcomed back with smiles & warm friendly greetings.

Malaysia is an excellent country to visit the people are wonderful

I have to say that it is the most friendly, honest, respectful & safe country I have had the pleasure of visiting.

Is it perfect NO the driving has much room for improvement & the the food does not have the variety of Thailand.

That's it for now best to all Brian & Soraya