Royal Brunei Yacht Club

Royal Brunei Yacht Club
This is a delightful yacht club at Serasa, near Maura, in Brunei. They welcomed us and allowed us to use their facilities, including the pool and washing machine, and we enjoyed great meals and the comraderie in their club house.
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Anchorage at Maura Island, Brunei

Anchorage

We anchored in the river in front of the RBYC. It is a peaceful place where life ia slow.
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Racing Preparations

Laser Preps

They have an active racing program here at RBYC, with lasers, optis and several larger classes.
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Kids Depart

Kids Depart
On this Saturday the racers, (kids fleet first) headed up thr river to the other clubhouse, and they raced back on Sunday.
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Night Rain

Night Rain

We're getting lots of rain here in Brunei, nearly every night squalls roll though and bring a cooling downpour which also fills our water tanks.

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Bandar Seri Begawan

Bandar Seri Begawan

Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of Brunei, and is some 15 miles up the Brunei River.
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Water Village Tour

Heading Out
We hired a water taxi to take us through the water village across the river from Bandar Seri Begawan. This water village (houses on stilts) has been the prominent feature of Bandar for centuries.

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Boy on the Bridge

Boy on the bridge

The boy waved as us as we sped past. There are no railings on the walkways between houses. We wonder how often someone falls in?
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Man Walking

Man Walking

All the buildings (houses, schools, stores, mosques)of the water village are connected by walkways, but boats can pass underneath.

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Judy

Judy

Judy enjoys the wind in her face (as any good sailor would) as we fly through the water village at river's level.

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Water Village House

Water Village House

600 years ago they did'nt have tin roofs or electricity, but life in the Brunei water village might not have been much different than it is today.

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Water Village and Brunei Mosque

Water village & Mosque
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Brunei Buildings

White Building
Grey House
Pink House
Beige House
Blue Building (Darth Vader)
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Brunei Water Village

Brunei's Water Village

While our speeding water taxi races by underneath, life goes on for the people who live on the walkways and in the houses above.

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Brunei Mosque

Brunei Mosque
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Brunei River

Water Village across the Brunei River from Bandfar Seri Begawan
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Brunei

Brunei Mosque and plaza at Bandar Seri Begawan
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KK Images

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Labuan Harbor Scenes

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Fat, Dumb and Happy

Sailing along, thinking we're doing fine, having some leftover singapore noodles, and a glass of Chardonnay, life is good. In a few moments we discovered that we are being hit with a big tide flow against us.

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Hydraulic Panel

This little guy had a bad day: With a real "Bang!" one of the fittings in back broke and it started to bleed to death. It's not leaking now, but look at the pressure on the left guage. it should be a lot higher, but that's all she'll take, Capt'n.

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Chart

Chart

You can see the course we plotted through the reefs sailing to Labuan. What you don't see is the next tack. It looked like a switchback on a mountian trail. Ugh!

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Day One

Day One

The first day of our two day sail to Labuan was terrific. Fast, easy sailing, in the shade of our underway awning. We never changed tacks.

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Tacking Action

Tacking Action

We're tacking in a fresh breeze on the way to Labuan. Judy steers and I do the sheets and runners. We trade off, except Judy doesn't like to tack the big genoa.

We extracted this frame from a video we shot with judy's camera. If I knew how to put it up on the web, I'd give you a link to it.

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Labuan Images

Flag Plaza, Labuan
Labuan Scupture
I got a haircut in Labuan, it cost $1.35 including a complete shave with shaving creme and a straight edge.

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Duty Free

Duty Free

Wings' cockpit is full of the cartons from the beer and wine we bought at duty free prices in Labuan Malaysia.

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Labuan Shipyard

Labuan Shipyard

Ship repair is BIG in Labuan, Malaysia. Here the many tenders and other vessels needed for the huge offshore oil industgry of Malaysia and Brunei are serviced.

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Sutera Harbor At Dusk

Sutera Harbor at Dusk

We're sitting down here aboard Wings in our snug berth at Sutera Harbor in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia. This is by far the nicest marina we've ever stayed in, with definately 5-star facilities, and at a good price.

Judy hangs out at the Olympic size pool and swims laps for exercise, I love to spend my time in the chart room using the WiFi connection.

We can take a taxi to town for a couple of bucks and there are great restuarants also at good prices. What more could you ask?

Oh, the sailing around here is great too.

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Haganes

Haganes

At Gayana Island Resort we ran across this interesting boat run by a couple we knew from Mexico and other places in the Pacific when they had a Macgreggor 65 named Final Frontier, Steven and Aleta Hansen.

Steve and Aleta went to Norway and bought this 100 year old 100 foot, 118 gross ton steel cargo boat and converted it to a luxury cruising vessel. What a cool boat!

You can read more about Haganes at their web site here

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Big Day in Town

Boats and a family at KK harbor.

This family came into town on a local cargo boat, and the two women stepped ashore, then Dad handed over the little boy, finally the little girl. Then they all went shopping(less Dad).

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Happy Guys

Who are these happy guys?

As I was crossing the street one of these guys said, "Take my picture". When I put the camera up to my eye they all started posing.

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Kung Foo Kid

Kung Foo Boat Boy

There is a whole bunch of people on this boat too: Two boys, two girls, and a sleeping woman, and that's just the foredeck.

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Cloth

Cloth

The street shops in KK are filled with beautiful cloth like this, and the women of Sabah wear dresses made from this cloth. Vey Classy.

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Dress Shop

Dress Shop

Typical street shop in KK
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Golden Domes of Sabah State Mosque

Beautiful Golden Domes
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Sabah State Mosque

State Mosque
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Segama

Segama District in KK

Much of KK's older shopping districts look like this. But there are also big malls, and trendy shops.

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Yellow Building

Yellow Building

Just liked the color of this building in KK

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Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu Town

From this shot, KK doesn't look like much, but it's really pretty big, and spread out.

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