Sunday morning's events left us in turmoil. Colin was going home (for a rest) so Judy rushed up to the ARC Office around 10am and after a conversation with Adam Gosling and Nick from WCC (World Cruising Club), we made contact with Georg and Tara the minibus drivers to see if they wanted to join our crew!
After "buy in" from our crew, Georg and Tara had one hour to get all of their gear, check out of their guest house, get onto our crew list and be on board.
It was so exciting- bands playing up and down the pontoons, music and fan fare all around us as we made our way out of the marina towards the starting line. Can you imagine 239 participating yachts together with spectator boats and crowds of people on the shoreline? The starting line was drawn from the Naval Ship, Vencedora, and we took it easy crossing the line. We put up our Spinnaker about half an hour later, and it wasn't long before it seemed as though we left the majority of the cruising class boats behind us! By the light of the full moon at the end of the night we could see there were only about a dozen of the original 239 boats around us.
How wondrous to be sailing across the ocean under a full moon, a clear sky and a starry, starry night!
-Cheers from the Crew of Kinabalu
Blog by Judy and Tara
Photo by Crew of Yacht Tou Can
Kinabalu Crew photo from Left to Right:
Chris Robb
Judy Howison
Tara DeVries
Simon Craig
Bob Howison
Georg Beyer
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