Rebak again

We remained in Rebak for 7 weeks, somewhat longer than intended, reducing the jobs list and only leaving the island for the essential, roughly weekly, shopping trips to Kuah and, in Susan's case, Friday trips to the "veggie man".

On our last trip to town we were able to meet up with old friends Elspeth and St John (MY Shadow Trader) who we first met in 2002 in Fiji with their previous yacht, Galyfreae, and last saw when we visited them on their farm near Gin Gin in Queensland in 2005, shortly after we arrived in Australia.

While in Rebak we had a new Silentwind wind generator delivered from Portugal to replace the 3 year old Air Breeze which had got flooded internally while we were on the hard in Boat Lagoon. TNT managed to send the correctly addressed package to Labuan and apparently lose track of it for 2 weeks and take another week to get it from KL to Rebak - door to door nearly a month! The Silentwind  is much quieter than the AirX, which with Silentwind blades retrofitted, is itself quieter than it used to be.

The new genset arrives at Rebak

We also gave up on our 7 year old Pajuro 4000 genset and, after some research into slower-running alternatives, ordered a new one. This arrived on the cargo boat to Rebak and was manhandled onto the pontoon before being lifted onto Sea Bunny using the boom and mainsheet - a routine we've got quite used to.

On 31 March we checked out of Langkawi at Telaga Harbour, collected more duty free booze and headed south, stopping for two nights in Teluk Ayer Tuan at the south of the Langkawi group where Richard dived to clean most of the ecosystem acquired from a stay in Rebak from the propeller.