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    Sailing With Senta: Small Boat Voyaging
    Sailing With Senta: Small Boat Voyaging
    Sailing With Senta: Small Boat Voyaging
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    Sailing With Senta: Small Boat Voyaging

    By Faith Van Rooyen

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaith Van Rooyen
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781310496042
    Sailing With Senta: Small Boat Voyaging
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    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.

      -------------------- ooo --------------------

      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

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