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This is one of my favorite parts of their logs:
"Well I think we can officially say that we have made it through the Malacca Strait. The famously dangerous pirate filled waters of the Malacca Strait to be more exact. So I thought now would be a good time to quote another grumpy old man off the bulletin boards. Here is what Jack had to say a few months back.
"...All the hard parts lie ahead, while the Coconut Milk Run has a relatively well-deserved name.
My wish for Pat & Ali is that they sail NNW from NZ via Tonga before heading to Oz - certainly not try it straight across the Tasman Sea - and after enjoying the Coral Coast, ship the boat to either the Med or the States, depending on their remaining interest in cruising and the size of their residual kitty. I'm especially concerned about the Malacca Straits & either the Red Sea or South Africa as sailing grounds for these willing but unskilled sailors.
My hunch is that something of this nature - a truncated voyage - will soon look like a reasonable alternative for them."
I just love that, "certainly not try it straight across the Tasman Sea", "especially concerned about the Malacca Straits", ship the boat to the Med or go home because they're out of money. Sorry to disappoint you Jack but it seems your "hunch" was wrong. These two "unskilled sailors", who have only two years and 17,000 miles of sailing behind them which is certainly not enough, have just completed everything that you said they shouldn't, or couldn't do. What a wimp. Personally, we set out on this trip for the adventure. The adventure of sailing around the world. Not to sail the easy parts and pay thousands of dollars to ship our boat to the next easy part like Jack would. I wanted to be able to set my grandkids on my lap and tell them stories. Really cool stories about big seas and big fish. And now I've got a whole warehouse full of those stories. And best of all is that I've got an incredible wife who was standing right next to me through it all and who has shared all of the adventure with me. As for Jack and his cronies, they'll just never get that and they'll never give us any credit because of that, we'll just always be the "unskilled sailors" who shouldn't be out here taking on the ocean."
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