Saturday 30th Nav - Departure day!
Today we finally departed Hong Kong! There were a few last minute organising and making sure the boat was ready for the passagand by just after 10am we cast our lines off and away we went. We had to dodge all the shipping entering and leaving HK and there were quite a few! We picked our spot between ships and went for it crossing the shipping lanes without getting in anyones way. Once past them we then had to navigate our way round all the local fishing fleet with the multiple longlines streaming out the back. I somehow managed to forget about them from previous trips but it all came flooding back once we were in amongst them all. “Pikorua” is going well, we are running along at 1550rpm averaging 8kts and sucking 15lts per hour on each engine. It's just under 1,100nm to get to our first fuel stop at Kota Kinabalu in Borneo. We should arrive on Friday or Saturday all being well.