The next job.....Day 2 Cairns-Singapore Day

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 Tuesday 9th Dec 

So, the plan of spending a bit of time in the Caribbean failed!

We arrived in Martinique on the 28th Nov and that day I got a WhatsApp message from the owner of a boat I delivered earlier in the year from Bora Bora to Fiji, my buck list boat a Nordhavn 76 trawler motor yacht.  He asked me what my availability was like in a weeks time as he needed his boat delivered from Cairns to Singapore and he wanted it to depart on the 8th or 9th Dec.


                                              She's a beast of a boat at 76ft long and 110 tons

                                        


    


Well, as you can see from the photos the opportunity to spend 3 weeks on this beauty was too good to miss, so I booked the 1st available flight home which was the next day via an over night stop in Montreal  then on to Vancouver and Auckland.  Take note of the time of the year and I had a stop over in Montreal!  -5c !!!  The only "warm" cloths I had was a very light weight pair of linen trousers and a light jacket.  It was a bit chilly and the white wintery fluffy stuff laying all around didn't help. 

After 49hrs of travel I made it home on the Tuesday afternoon, managed to get some jobs done before heading back to the airport on Saturday night for a night in one of the airport hotels as I was on the redeye to Sydney in the morning and connecting flight to Cairns in the afternoon. 

Met up with the owners and the 2 boys who are full time crew.  It was like I had never left.  Out for diner and an early night as I had been up for 22hrs and was exhausted.  

Monday was a day of paperwork, contacting the Singaporean clearing agent to get the clearing in process started, last minute fresh food shop, Assuie Border Force at 13:00 to process our clearnace out paperwork and finally a tanker was booked for 14:00 to dump nearly 13,000lts of diesel into our 5 tanks.  Glad I wasn't paying that bill!


Topping up with 13,000lts of diesel from a tanker



Owners left for the airport at 17:00 and we finally cleared the dock around 18:00 into a stiff breeze until we cleared the channel and turned north to head up towards Thursday Island then west.  We had pretty nice conditions as wind and waves were all from behind.  Add the hydraulic stabilisers to the equation and she's a 110T smooth ride.



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