Today our last day before flying out tomorrow we went on the Kilim Eco Park tour.
This starts in one river and goes through to another river via the "Langkawi Grand Canyon" and then back to the start via the outside. I wanted to do this trip because I knew there were yachts parked in the river and I was wondering what the situation was with them.
Some of them have been there for some time and are looking quite sad. The tropics can be hard on things. Between the two rivers there must have been 20 odd yachts anchored or moored there. About five of them had residents aboard.
One of them is a Kelt 39 called Celtic Caper (now known as Feeling Yachts) that I have been aboard many years ago when it was in Bundaberg. Sad to see her in such a state.
Security seems to be OK, I guess because the traffic is high and from what I have seen the Malaysians are a very honest people.
Have a close look at the yachts to see the effect of the tropics.
One of the better looking yachts is Wanderer V. Isn't this the Pardy's yacht?
According to our boat driver several of the yachts have been parked there and the owners have gone back home for a year or more.
Not the sort of thing I would do with any yacht I would own.

It is a pleasant enough place to be anchored but the logistics of getting supplies etc is a challenge there.

Looks very like the Wanderer 5 that Susan and Eric Hiscock had. Their last boat, 39' timber.

sydchris said..
Looks very like the Wanderer 5 that Susan and Eric Hiscock had. Their last boat, 39' timber.

Of all the yachts in the anchorage Wanderer V looked the freshest and best prepared for a lay up.
Whoever owns her knows their business.

cisco said..

dralyagmas said..
We were there on a charter yacht about 15 years ago and it was the same. Was a good place to anchor and we went to the floating restaurant in there which was lovely, although i did get ciguatera poisoning from eating fish. Not so lovely for the next week.

We haven't had much seafood here. What they sell as mud crabs you would get locked up for in Australia.
We did visit one of the floating restaurants/fish farms for a look.
What I really liked was the floating mosque in the river for the fishermen.

Cisco,
Thanks for all the pics and info.
Very interesting.

Good info Cisco. Here's a little bit extra - yes Langkawi is duty free but if you plan to fill the boat with grog there, and then head west, Customs in Sri Lanka will try to get it all off you when you get to Galle. Be ready.

Jeff