{"id":4182,"date":"2018-01-24T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:09:25","slug":"p-mantanani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=4182","title":{"rendered":"P.Mantanani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick update…<\/p>\n

I arrived at Pulau Mantanani today.\"\"It was a bit of a slog, I left at 7am and arrived at 17:00 and spent 30 minutes trying to find a spot to anchor.
\nOn the way I passed Kinabalu Mountain, which looked lovely in the morning mist, I think it’s the tallest mountain in SE Asia.\"\" It was quite rough later on during the passage and I couldn’t motor then as the wind and waves were on the nose and slowed me to just 2 knots, so I had to tack back and forth for 4 hours, mostly steering by hand.\u00a0 It was while the boat was heeling heavily, and was racing along with a double reefed main and just the staysail, that I began to doubt the wind speed indicator, that was showing 10 knots of wind, and in fact, when I thought about it, it hadn’t been above 10 knots for a very long time. I expect it’s faulty and will have to be replaced.\"\"You can see on the map below there are two islands, Besar and Kerchil, which means big and small. I went for the small one as it was recommended to anchor south of the lighthouse, however there isn’t a lighthouse here anymore, did they mean the new radar station? You can see on the google map how the two islands sit on a big oval lump of rock,.