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I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

September 14, 2010

Pulau Dayang Bunting (posted Dec 5, 2009)


Pulau Dayang Bunting – famous for the lake of the pregnant maiden.  Well, we still don’t know the story of the lake.  You see, we finally sailed over to the island (see our previous blog, which we only uploaded after we got back from the island).  We anchored in this narrow piece of water between Pulau Dayang Bunting and a smaller island.  It was really tranquil.  Sitting among sheer cliffs on all sides, with the eagles soaring and the birds and crickets singing.  It would have been nice if we were the only ones there but a good thing cannot be kept a secret.  There were 10 boats at anchor the two nights we were there.  We were going to stay three nights but decided to get back to civilization.
We never went to the lake.  It was so nice sitting at anchor amongst the beauty and tranquility that we decided not to do anything else but just sit and enjoy ourselves.  Perhaps next time we get there we will go see what the hype of the lake is all about.
In three days time, Pauline’s visa expires and she’ll have to either go beg for an extension or go for a visa run to Satun in Thailand.  We want to be here in Langkawi for another week before we sail up to Thailand.

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