Sailing With Senta: Small Boat Voyaging
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After reluctantly ending an exciting period of cruising the southern Philippines Islands Faith and Pierre on board their sailing boat Senta return to Kota Kinabalu in Borneo. Many months of hard work in a boatyard and later at the Sutera Marina prepared the boat for a thousand mile voyage round Singapore and up the Malacca Straits to Langkawi Island.
The second part of this book contains notes and advice useful to those thinking of joining the community of cruising sailors
Colour photographs and charts help tell the story.
Faith Van Rooyen
Born 1938. Educated at Yeoville Convent, Johannesburg High School for Girls and Witwatersrand University, all in South Africa. Worked for more rhan 35 years in the computer software industry, designing and writing and implementing systems for business on mainframes and personal computers. Retired in 1995 to fulfil a life-time dream of cruising with her husband Pierrre on their forty foot Armel sailing boat, Senta.
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Sailing With Senta - Faith Van Rooyen
Sailing with Senta - Small Boat Voyaging
By Faith Van Rooyen
Copyright 2013 Faith Van Rooyen
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Table of Contents
Cover Picture
Other Books
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Work is a four letter word
Chapter Two Borneo to Singapore
Chapter Three North up the Malacca Strait
Chapter Four Anchorages between KK and Langkawi
Chapter Five Living in Langkawi
Chapter Six Christmas in Phuket
Chapter Seven Back in Langkawi
Chapter Eight Cruising Costs
Chapter Nine Human Resources
Chapter Ten The Right Boat
Chapter Eleven Keep it Simple
Chapter Twelve Navigation
Chapter Thirteen Boat Handling
Chapter Fourteen Provisioning
Chapter Fifteen Drinking Water
Chapter Sixteen Medical
Chapter Seventeen Batteries
Chapter Eighteen Sail Trim
Chapter Nineteen Self Steering
Chapter Twenty Sun Protection
Chapter Twenty one Engine
Chapter Twenty two Cooking
Chapter Twenty three Anchoring
Chapter Twenty four Dinghy
Chapter Twenty five Tropics
Chapter Twenty six Tools
Appendices
Glossary
Cover Picture
Senta in a Thai boatyard, receiving excellent loving care from the people who keep the fishing fleet ship-shape.
Other Books in the Series
Sailing With Senta - Eastward Ho!
Sailing With Senta - Across Coral Seas
Sailing With Senta - Africa Calls
Sailing With Senta - Tropical Dream
Sailing With Senta - Borneo Here We Come
Sailing With Senta - Playtime in the Philippines
Sailing With Senta - Small Boat Voyaging
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to
Judith Ryder, long time friend in Wakkerstroom, South Africa, who has spent a decade managing our affairs while we sailed among Indian Ocean islands.
All the new friends we made along the way who helped us find out how wonderful the cruising life style can be.
For Pierre, Brett and Ingrid.
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Chapter One Work is a four-letter word
After our two cruises through the southern islands of Philippines during 2005 and the early part of 2006 Senta was badly in need of some attention. We prolonged our final stop at Tiga Island off the north-east corner of Balambangan Island as long as we could.
Tiga Island Anchorage.
We hated to leave, but had to some time. On Sunday 16 April, motoring in rain, we slowly made our way to anchor in the pond at Kudat just outside the boatyard.
The Pond at Kudat. Penewasa boatyard in the background.
Note waterspout. Not nice.
During dinner at the Kudat golf club with Colin and Glyn of our buddy boat, Deja Vu, we celebrated our enjoyable Philippines adventures and attempted to prepare ourselves for the tough time ahead. Friends Warren and Mary of Arawana, who were already working on their boat in the yard, gave us information about Kudat and Penewasa boat yard.
On Monday we checked into Malaysia, which is always a pleasure. Quick, a minimum of red tape and no money to pay. After a tour of Kudat, a small fishing town, we arranged for Senta to be hauled out on the travel lift at the boatyard at eight o’clock the following morning.
Senta in the pond at Kudat prior to haul-out.
We also reserved a room at the Ria Hotel for a month. This was fairly expensive, but some of the best money we have ever spent. We had decided that we needed to have some respite at the end of each day from the dust and heat of the shipyard. We would never have been able to complete the work needed to sand, fill and paint Senta’s hull and top sides, even with the help of Badang, a young local man, if we were not able to shower and rest in our air conditioned room each evening.
On Tuesday, after slipping Senta, we moved into the hotel and the next morning Pierre travelled the hundred miles or so to Kota Kinabalu by long distance taxi to fetch our motor bike. He was really exhausted after the hectic, two and a half hour taxi ride, followed by the three hour, cramped bike-ride back to Kudat. But it was worth the trouble, as we could now get around the spread-out town of Kudat to buy bits and pieces as well as to commute to and from our refuge at the Ria.
Internet access was available in the hotel lobby for guests, so we could keep in contact with our family, while wishing they were with us to help! We dreamt of a plane load of friends and relatives landing at the small airport, dressed in overalls and armed with scrapers and sand paper.
Reasonably priced meals at KFC, the golf club, a seafood restaurant on the waterfront and at Annie’s meant that we did not have to cook. We could make endless cups of tea on Senta and in the hotel room, so our inner persons were well looked after.
There was even a laundry next door to the hotel so we could just throw our disgustingly dirty boat working clothes into a bag, take them to the ‘dhobi’ and get them back the next afternoon, all fresh and clean.
Sounds like another holiday, doesn’t it? But I can assure you it wasn’t.
It seemed as if the sanding, scraping and filling would never end, but, as always happens, once it did the rest of the work went reasonably quickly.
Almost exactly one month from the day we hauled