{"id":29,"date":"2016-01-07T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-01-08T01:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:44:28","slug":"boat-repairs-and-a-trip-to-the-haulout-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Boat repairs and a trip to the haulout yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another very hot day. It started with a huge breakfast in the hotel, as I wanted to not have to worry about lunch later, then a taxi down to the boat in Batu Uban. As soon as I arrived I headed off with Erik to check out the boatyard at Batu Maung, where we will haul-out for a jet wash and a visual inspection of the hull. I think Batu means rock or stone in Malay. We had to drive through a building site on the way, quite crazy, the Chinese are building everywhere, huge, huge skyscraper tower blocks with gigantic shopping malls, in the middle of nowhere, I think they plan to create\u00a0a whole new society in that area, that was before a very sleepy place with a craggy coastline and a little boatyard. Erik thinks they build them and th Chinese buy the properties as an investment, but they mostly sit there empty. Renting is really cheap as a consequence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have problems because we cant leave the marina\u00a0until we are near high water and we can&#8217;t get to the travel lift at the yard much after High water, and it&#8217;s a couple of hours away, maybe more depending on how fast we can go with a crabby bottom.<\/p>\n<p>A haul-out was provisionally booked for Monday, and we headed back to Wanderlust to see if we could fix a few problems that were an issue for the passage, like no VHF Radio and the alternator not charging, once sorted we called it a day. I managed a good walk around the old part of town before it all shut up and managed some pictures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vfh1.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vfh1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vfh1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from my Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ch2.jpg\" alt=\"ch1 taken thursday 7th\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ch2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ch2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown George Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ch1.jpg\" alt=\"ch1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ch1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ch1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another very hot day. It started with a huge breakfast in the hotel, as I wanted to not have to worry about lunch later, then a taxi down to the boat in Batu Uban. As soon as I arrived I headed off with Erik to check out the boatyard at Batu Maung, where we will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boat repairs and a trip to the haulout yard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}