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Alaska, United States
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"

April 10, 2015

Shodoshima Uchinomi Ko

34d 28.743 N. 134d 17.893 E

Well we made it.  Sari Timur was flawless.  The weather was a precursor for our Alaska crossing i.e. Cold wet and miserable.  But we now know some of the things we need to be prepared for.  We made it just over 10 hours.  We will tuck in here for a couple of days and do some sight seeing, this is a tourist island sort of with a Mediterranean atmosphere. We will add more to this post as we explore.

Last night we decided to head to the local onsen and warm up.  After a half hour in the various baths we were rather toasty and it was time to eat.  We were in bed before 9 and slept all the way until eight this morning.  Then today we hired a car  for six hours to explore.  We went to a soya sauce museum and worked our way up to an old abandoned temple.  We were on a back coast road oohing and aahing at the various scenic views when we came to an abrupt end of the line as the road had washed out in front of us due to the heavy spring rains a few weeks back. We ended up backtracking almost to where we started in order to catch the main road which we used to circumnavigate the rest of the island.  We sorted out some of the must see sights for tomorrow and used the last of the time with the car to reprovision.  Look here for an update tomorrow.






In the Cablecar

Looking into the Gorge


Almost to the top, a few more steps

From the Highest Point in the Inland Sea





A Panoramic of where the cable care stops






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