Day 23 Cairns-Bali-Batam Island-Singapore JOB DONE!

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 Tuesday 30th Dec '25

Finally this job is done.  23 days and approx 3,500nm's under the belt.  This boat is amazing!  WOW, what a tank.  The Nordhavn 76 has been on my buck list of jobs to do for years and this year I managed to do 2 deliveries in her.  First from Bora Bora to Fiji then this one.  I will remember for a while to come.

We left Nongsa Point Marina at first light, 06:00, and headed west out into the Singapore Strait for a few miles before turning north into the channel that separates Malaysia and Singapore towards Raffles Marina just before the "Causeway" bridge that is the border between the 2 countries.  I actually used to lived in Johor Baru which is on the Malaysian side of the Causeway from age of 2 to 4 yrs old when my father was in the British Navy and he was based in Singapore.  He used to cross this bridge every working day.

For those that don't have it I have a Garmin In-Reach that tracks where we are, where we've been and a couple of other details and this is the link if you are interested in looking at my past or future routes  -  https://share.garmin.com/FKHAP

This was a quite section of the Singapore Strait.  

I was too busy avoiding ships in the busy sections to take photos




That's it, the end of an epic 3,500nm journey, one I will remember.

Until the next one............. 
























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