Where is Sea Glass (2nd entry)
We have now at Singapore and we have been traveling for nine and a half days straight. We are going to put the boat in a berth in the Republic of Singapore Marina for about a week. The weather was mostly on our side and we sailed down wind for about 8 days at an average speed of 6 ½ knots. Luckily, there were no hurricanes that interfered with our traveling although there were two that were heading towards Japan. The weather was mostly sunny with a few clouds, but there were storm clouds as we neared Singapore. We saw lots of huge container ships, with the biggest being 380 m long. There were also lots of fishing vessels off the coast of Vietnam with no AIS, and the only way to avoid them was to look for the bright lights and make course adjustments. Speaking of Vietnam we were thinking about stopping there to break up the trip into halves, but we learned that you had to get all your stuff ahead of time and so we didn’t.
Coming into the Singapore area there were tons and tons of container ships just anchored up to wait for whatever reason. What was amazing is that I saw a military Singaporean submarine above the water with two Singaporean destroyers. Cool, Right? We identified them by using the AIS. Luckily were only staying here for a week otherwise Mom might put me in one of those super competitive schools.
The marina is very nice and has an awesome swimming pool with a glass barrier that you can look out while you’re swimming. It’s like being the fish in an aquarium.
The rate to the US dollar is horrible here, and it’s just as expensive as Australia.
I have pictures and I will update this post later.
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