Life afloat
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We’ve embedded ourselves in the Langkawi life for a while. It’s nice to have a change from being on the move or working. The boat is in the marina at Rebak Island, and we come and go from there out to the beautiful anchorages in the Unesco Heritage islands off the coast of Langkawi. It’s…
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Hey…we’re back on board Innocenti after nine months away. We are no longer home-owners. The only real estate we own is this 42-foot little piece of Aotearoa floating around in Malaysia. Let me attempt to summarise the goings-on of our time away in a single paragraph. Here goes…. We ran out money and couldn’t re-tennant…
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We’re enjoying 18 degrees instead of 33 degrees, sleeping with a blanket and duvet, instead of lying in a puddle of sweat. I’m wearing jumpers and long trousers, not shorts and teeshirts, and waking up to the song of tui, not hornbills and Macaque monkeys. We’re back in Auckland until January, and it was so…
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The landscape in Eastern Indonesia has consisted of dry brown islands and clear blue skies. Then it changed as we neared the equator to lush jungle covered islands and massive puffy cumulus clouds that tend to drop their load in the evening in the form of a cooling squall. We haven’t set foot on land…
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Rain…4 days of it, and one very disappointed 8 year old, when we took a rain-check on the scheduled overnight sailing adventure. The thought of 5 adults and 2 energetic children cooped up in 42 feet of boat in the steamy, rainy conditions might’ve stretched the cousinly love just a bit. Fast forward 3 days…
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We schedule an oil and filter change every 150 hours when we’re travelling like this. Every 100 hours if the engine is not being used so often. Innocenti’s engine is a Yanmar 4JH4E it is naturally aspirated and 40kw/55hp @ 3000rpm.
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1. The Lagoon – is situated on the waterfront in Cairns. There’s a big pool with a beach, free showers (a great facility for grotty yachties) and it’s patrolled by lifeguards. There are free water-zumba classes (Angus is very excited about that🤣) an outdoor gym and fantastic free BBQ facilities. It’s a bit chaotic in…
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We took advantage of a couple of days in Townsville to do some jobs. The servicing of the engine being the priority. Innocenti was perched on the edge of the channel in the “Duck Pond” with our keel stuck in the mud at low tide (at least that stopped the rolling) where we changed the…
Cruising Innocenti 