I have just returned from a brief trip to Ko Tarutoa. I could feel the onset inertia as Sadiqi and I had not moved for quite some time. I was starting to contemplate, amongst other things, growing a herb garden out the back of the boat – basil, mint, turmeric, rosemary etc. The rolling stone was gathering moss apart from the barnacles on the bottom of the boat.! After having a few beers with Nigel and Moo on “Lemalou” I suggested we go the Ko Lipe - Butangs for a few days. The two boats headed in that direction on Saturday morning, which was also the direction from where the wind was coming from! It was a good 10 to 15 knots. Nigel had to return as oil had sprayed all over his engine room when the oil filler cap fell off. After consultation with the teddy bears as to beating to windward to another 7 to 8 hours we opted for Ko Tarutoa - the big island to the north of Langkawi. This was a pleasant sail with the wind on the beam. I spent one night on the south eastern end of Ko Tarutoa sharing the anchorage with the local Choa Le (Thai Sea Gypsies) fisherman.
It was a good sail back to Telaga, Langkawi the following day - there was 10 to 15 knots of wind from the west north west. Much stuff reorganised itself about the boat as on the return we encountered clapotis waves from the cliffs on the North West coast of Langkawi. These are waves that bounce back from a near vertical surface (cliff) and meet the prevailing waves coming the other way – giving a washing machine effect. Oh well you get that. Fortunately, I had managed to restrain the vegetables; onions, potatoes etc., that previously escaped and hid themselves until such time as their decomposition become offensive to the olfactory senses Not a good thing.
It was a good sail back to Telaga, Langkawi the following day - there was 10 to 15 knots of wind from the west north west. Much stuff reorganised itself about the boat as on the return we encountered clapotis waves from the cliffs on the North West coast of Langkawi. These are waves that bounce back from a near vertical surface (cliff) and meet the prevailing waves coming the other way – giving a washing machine effect. Oh well you get that. Fortunately, I had managed to restrain the vegetables; onions, potatoes etc., that previously escaped and hid themselves until such time as their decomposition become offensive to the olfactory senses Not a good thing.
