Pangkor marina and Slipway

Watusi was lifted out of the water and put on the hard stand right behind our friends on Velella, so we had good company while we work. The boat needed antifoul on the bottom and also replace the seal in the prop drive shaft. It took Ken 3 days to get the aquadrive drive shaft adapter off the back of the gearbox with a puller that he made. It was over machined as there was no rust between the adaptor and the gearbox flange.Ken took the rest of the drive shaft to a machine shop and got an oxy onto the adaptor to get it of the driveshaft bearing housing.No luck.Had to put it in a lathe and machine it off.Ken would like to meet the machinist who made the adaptor We also completed other jobs on the boat and went back in the water after 3 weeks.

We met some great people while on the hard, all very helpful with their knowledge on where to get things. Ken started chatting to Lauchie, he was working on his 80 foot aluminum boat a bit like ours but double the size....he took Ken most days to get boat bits, they would also stop for coffee or lunch, I guess you need to get away from the boat for a while. One night walking home from the night market (no taxis running around here) we were both very tired carrying the fruit and vegetables, a friendly young  man, Nik, picked us up, we invited him down the boat for dinner the next night and then he took us to Tom Yum his favorite dinner we talked about all the differences between our countries and way of life.Nik was the second youngest of ten from his father's second wife and was studying engineering.A great young man who said to just ring if we needed anything